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 & crew
Leonid GaidaiDirector
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
