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.
- Created by
- Leonid Gaidai
- Origin
- SU
- TMDB rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 179 votes
Cast
Archil GomiashviliOstap Bender
Sergei FilippovIppolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov
Mikhail PugovkinFather Fyodor
Glikeriya Bogdanova-ChesnokovaYelena Stanislavovna Bour
Natalya VarleyYelizaveta "Liza" Petrovna
Natalya VorobyovaEllochka Shchukina
Nina GrebeshkovaMusik, Bruns' wife
Natalya Krachkovskayamadame Gritsatsuyeva
Klara RumyanovaFather Fyodor's wife
Georgiy Vitsinfitter Mechnikov
