12 Chairs (1971)

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12 Chairs on IMDb 8.4/10 4,420 votes

Released:
1971-06-21

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.

Director:
Leonid Gaidai

Runtime:
2h 41min

Genre:
Comedy, Adventure

  • Cast:
  • Archil Gomiashvili
    as
    Остап Бендер
  • Sergei Filippov
    as
    Киса Воробьянинов
  • Mikhail Pugovkin
    as
    Отец Фёдор
  • Nina Grebeshkova
    as
    Мусик / Царица Тамара
  • Yuriy Nikulin
    as
    дворник Тихон