12 Chairs (1971)
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.
- Released
- 1971-06-21
- Genres
- Comedy, Adventure, Crime
- Runtime
- 161 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Leonid Gaidai
- TMDB rating
- 7.6/10 from 184 votes
Cast
- Archil Gomiashvili as Ostap Bender
- Sergei Filippov as Ippolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov
- Mikhail Pugovkin as Father Fyodor
- Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova as Yelena Stanislavovna Bour
- Natalya Varley as Yelizaveta "Liza" Petrovna
- Natalya Vorobyova as Ellochka Shchukina
- Nina Grebeshkova as Musik, Bruns' wife
- Natalya Krachkovskaya as madame Gritsatsuyeva
- Klara Rumyanova as Father Fyodor's wife
- Georgiy Vitsin as fitter Mechnikov
- Nikolay Gorlov as Polesov
- Savely Kramarov as one-eyed chess player