Directed by Леонид Гайдай
2h 41m
Comedy
| Adventure
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.
Archil Gomiashvili
Остап Бендер
Sergei Filippov
Киса Воробьянинов
Mikhail Pugovkin
Отец Фёдор
Nina Grebeshkova
Мусик / Царица Тамара
Yuriy Nikulin
дворник Тихон
Natalya Krachkovskaya
мадам Грицацуева
Natalya Varley
Лиза
Igor Yasulovich
инженер Щукин
Georgiy Vitsin
монтёр Мечников
Leonid Gaidai
Writer
Vladlen Bakhnov
Writer
Leonid Gaidai
Director
Sergei Poluyanov
Director of Photography
Valery Shuvalov
Director of Photography
Yevgeni Kumankov
Art Direction
Klavdiya Aleyeva
Editor
Yevgeni Petrov
Novel
Ilya Ilf
Novel