12 Chairs

(1971)Directed by Leonid Gaidai161 minComedy, Adventure, Crime

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 Gomiashvilias Ostap Bender
Sergei Filippovas Ippolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov
Mikhail Pugovkinas Father Fyodor
Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokovaas Yelena Stanislavovna Bour
Natalya Varleyas Yelizaveta "Liza" Petrovna
Natalya Vorobyovaas Ellochka Shchukina
Nina Grebeshkovaas Musik, Bruns' wife
Natalya Krachkovskayaas madame Gritsatsuyeva
Klara Rumyanovaas Father Fyodor's wife
Georgiy Vitsinas fitter Mechnikov
Nikolay Gorlovas Polesov
Savely Kramarovas one-eyed chess player
Yuriy Nikulinas janitor Tikhon
Viktor Pavlovas Kolya, Liza's husband
Gotlib Roninsonas chairman Kislyarsky
Roman Filippovas poet Nikifor Lyapis-Trubetskoy
Grigoriy Shpigelas Aleksandr Yakovlevich
Vladimir Etushas Andrei Bruns
Igor Yasulovichas Ernest Shchukin
Nina Agapovaas soloist of theater "Kolumb"
Rina Zelyonayaas editor of the magazine "Bride and Groom"
Yevdokiya Urusovaas Kisa's mother-in-law
Ruslan Akhmetovas actor of theater "Kolumb"