12 Chairs (1971)

7.6/10 161 min Comedy Adventure Crime

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.

Cast

Archil Gomiashvili

Ostap Bender

Sergei Filippov

Ippolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov

Mikhail Pugovkin

Father Fyodor

Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova

Yelena Stanislavovna Bour

Natalya Varley

Yelizaveta "Liza" Petrovna

Natalya Vorobyova

Ellochka Shchukina

Nina Grebeshkova

Musik, Bruns' wife

Natalya Krachkovskaya

madame Gritsatsuyeva

Klara Rumyanova

Father Fyodor's wife

Georgiy Vitsin

fitter Mechnikov

Nikolay Gorlov

Polesov

Savely Kramarov

one-eyed chess player

Yuriy Nikulin

janitor Tikhon

Viktor Pavlov

Kolya, Liza's husband

Gotlib Roninson

chairman Kislyarsky

Roman Filippov

poet Nikifor Lyapis-Trubetskoy

Grigoriy Shpigel

Aleksandr Yakovlevich

Vladimir Etush

Andrei Bruns

Igor Yasulovich

Ernest Shchukin

Nina Agapova

soloist of theater "Kolumb"

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