12 Chairs

1971

2h 41m

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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.

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Leonid Gaidai(writer by)
Vladlen Bakhnov(writer by)
Ilya Ilf(novel by)
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Archil Gomiashvili
Остап Бендер
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Sergei Filippov
Киса Воробьянинов
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Mikhail Pugovkin
Отец Фёдор
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Nina Grebeshkova
Мусик
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Yuriy Nikulin
дворник Тихон
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Natalya Krachkovskaya
мадам Грицацуева
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Igor Yasulovich
инженер Щукин
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Georgiy Vitsin
монтёр Мечников
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Savely Kramarov
председатель шахматного клуба
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Klara Rumyanova
попадья
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Leonid Gaidai
Коробейников
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Ivan Zhevago
редактор газеты «Станок»
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Natalya Vorobyova
Эллочка Щукина
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Vladimir Kuznetsov
шахматист (uncredited)

Directors

Writers

Leonid Gaidai(writer by)
Vladlen Bakhnov(writer by)
Ilya Ilf(novel by)

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Release date

June 21, 1971 (United States)

Country of origin

Soviet Union

Language

Russian

Production company

Mosfilm

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