

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.
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Twelve chairs (comedy, dir. Leonid Gaidai, 1971) Full Movie
Cast

Archil Gomiashvili
Ostap Bender

Sergei Filippov
Ippolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov

Mikhail Pugovkin
Father Fyodor

Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova
Yelena Stanislavovna Bour

Natalya Varley
Yelizaveta "Liza" Petrovna

Natalya Vorobyova
Ellochka Shchukina

Nina Grebeshkova
Musik, Bruns' wife

Natalya Krachkovskaya
madame Gritsatsuyeva

Klara Rumyanova
Father Fyodor's wife

Georgiy Vitsin
fitter Mechnikov

Nikolay Gorlov
Polesov

Savely Kramarov
one-eyed chess player
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