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.
Stars: Archil Gomiashvili, Sergei Filippov, Mikhail Pugovkin, Nina Grebeshkova, Yuriy Nikulin, Natalya Krachkovskaya
Crew: Leonid Gaidai (Writer), Vladlen Bakhnov (Writer), Leonid Gaidai (Director), Sergei Poluyanov (Director of Photography), Valery Shuvalov (Director of Photography), Yevgeni Kumankov (Art Direction)
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Pусский
Studio: Mosfilm
Runtime: 161 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jun 21, 1971
IMDb: 3.4
Keywords:based on novel or book