12 Chairs (1971)
12 stulev
153 min
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.
- Release date
- June 21, 1971
- Country of origin
- Russia
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Cast
- Archil Gomiashvili as Ostap Bender
- Sergey Filippov as Kisa Vorobyaninov
- Mikhail Pugovkin as Father Fyodor
- Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova as Yelena Stanislavovna Bour
- Natalya Varley as Liza
- Nina Grebeshkova as Musik
- Natalya Krachkovskaya as madam Gritsatsuyeva
- Klara Rumyanova as matushka Katerina Alexandrovna
- Georgiy Vitsin as Mechnikov - montyor
- Nikolay Gorlov as Polesov
- Saveliy Kramarov as one-eyed chess player
- Yuriy Nikulin as janitor Tikhon
- Viktor Pavlov as Kolya, Liza's husband
- Gotlib Roninson as chairman Kislyarsky
- Roman Filippov as poet Nikifor Lyapis-Trubetskoy
- Grigoriy Shpigel as Aleksandr Yakovlevich
- Vladimir Etush as Andrei Bruns
- Igor Yasulovich as Ernest Shchukin
- Nina Agapova as soloist of theater "Kolumb"
- Rina Zelyonaya as editor of the magazine "Bride and Groom"
- Yevdokiya Urusova as Kisa's mother-in-law
- Ruslan Akhmetov as actor of theater "Kolumb"
- Eduard Bredun as Pasha Emilevich
- Pavel Vinnik as waiter
- Erast Garin as theater critic
- Georgiy Georgiu as person in charge at "Skryabin"
- Natalya Vorobyova as Ellochka Shchukina
- Nina Grebeshkova as Tsaritsa Tamara
Crew
- Leonid Gaidai · Director
- Ilya Ilf · Writer
- Yevgeni Petrov · Writer
- Vladlen Bakhnov · Writer
- Leonid Gaidai · Writer
- Aleksandr Zatsepin · Composer
- Sergei Poluyanov · Cinematographer
- Klavdiya Aleyeva · Editor
- Yevgeni Kumankov · Production designer