Overview
A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.
DirectorLeonid Gaidai
WritersVladlen Bakhnov, Leonid Gaidai
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Archil Gomiashvili
Остап Бендер
Sergei Filippov
Киса Воробьянинов
Mikhail Pugovkin
Отец Фёдор
Nina Grebeshkova
Мусик / Царица Тамара
Yuriy Nikulin
дворник Тихон
Natalya Krachkovskaya
мадам Грицацуева
Natalya Varley
Лиза
Igor Yasulovich
инженер Щукин
Georgiy Vitsin
монтёр Мечников
Savely Kramarov
председатель шахматного клуба
Details
LanguageRussian
Production companiesMosfilm
