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12 Chairs

7.7/ 1019712h 41m

ComedyAdventureCrime

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.

Directed by Leonid Gaidai

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Archil Gomiashvili

Archil Gomiashvili

Ostap Bender

Sergei Filippov

Sergei Filippov

Ippolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov

Mikhail Pugovkin

Mikhail Pugovkin

Father Fyodor

Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova

Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova

Yelena Stanislavovna Bour

Natalya Varley

Natalya Varley

Yelizaveta "Liza" Petrovna

Natalya Vorobyova

Natalya Vorobyova

Ellochka Shchukina

Nina Grebeshkova

Nina Grebeshkova

Musik, Bruns' wife

Natalya Krachkovskaya

Natalya Krachkovskaya

madame Gritsatsuyeva