12 Chairs

Synopsis

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