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12 Chairs

12 Chairs

1971•2h 41m•7.6/10
ComedyAdventure

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7.6/10(169)

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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Production

Mosfilm

Language

RU

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Archil Gomiashvili

Archil Gomiashvili

Остап Бендер

Sergei Filippov

Sergei Filippov

Киса Воробьянинов

Mikhail Pugovkin

Mikhail Pugovkin

Отец Фёдор

Nina Grebeshkova

Nina Grebeshkova

Мусик / Царица Тамара

Yuriy Nikulin

Yuriy Nikulin

дворник Тихон

Natalya Krachkovskaya

Natalya Krachkovskaya

мадам Грицацуева

Natalya Varley

Natalya Varley

Лиза

Igor Yasulovich

Igor Yasulovich

инженер Щукин

Georgiy Vitsin

Georgiy Vitsin

монтёр Мечников

Savely Kramarov

Savely Kramarov

председатель шахматного клуба

Klara Rumyanova

Klara Rumyanova

попадья

Leonid Gaidai

Leonid Gaidai

Коробейников

Ivan Zhevago

Ivan Zhevago

редактор газеты «Станок»

Natalya Vorobyova

Natalya Vorobyova

Эллочка Щукина

Vladimir Kuznetsov

Vladimir Kuznetsov

шахматист (uncredited)

Anatoli Chebotaryov

Lydia Prikhodko

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