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.

Starring:

Aleksandr Denisov, Aleksandr Khvylya, Aleksey Kalabulin, Archil Gomiashvili, Eduard Bredun, Erast Garin, Georgi Georgiu, Georgiy Vitsin, Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova, Gotlib Roninson, Grigori Shpigel, Igor Yasulovich, Irina Murzayeva, Ivan Zhevago, Klara Rumyanova, Mikhail Pugovkin, Natalya Krachkovskaya, Natalya Varley, Natalya Vorobyova, Nikolai Gor

Genre:

Comedy