12 Chairs (1971)
12 стульев
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.
- Date of release
- 1971-06-21
- TMDB
- 7.6 / 10 (184)
- Runtime
- 2h 41m
- Genres
- Comedy, Adventure, Crime
- Director
- Leonid Gaidai
Casting
- 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
- Nikolay Gorlov — Polesov
- Savely Kramarov — one-eyed chess player
Interesting facts
- Based on: The Twelve Chairs
- Filmed in: Rybinsk, Tutayev, Moscow, Pyatigorsk, Yalta, Yessentuki and 2 more
The Twelve Chairs is a 1971 Soviet comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai. It is an adaptation of Ilf and Petrov's 1928 novel The Twelve Chairs.
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