Overview
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.
Fun facts
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Based on
Based on the novel The Twelve Chairs
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Filming locations
Filmed in Rabotki, Yessentuki, Moscow and 5 other locations
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Setting
Set in Russia
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Music
Music by Aleksandr Zatsepin
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Sergey Poluyanov and Valeri Shuvalov
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Leonid GaidaiWriter
- Vladlen BakhnovWriter
- Yevgeni PetrovNovel
- Ilya IlfNovel
- Original title
- 12 стульев
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 21, 1971
- Original language
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
Production
Cast
Archil GomiashviliOstap Bender
Sergei FilippovIppolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov
Mikhail PugovkinFather Fyodor
Glikeriya Bogdanova-ChesnokovaYelena Stanislavovna Bour
Natalya VarleyYelizaveta "Liza" Petrovna
Natalya VorobyovaEllochka Shchukina
Nina GrebeshkovaMusik, Bruns' wife
Natalya Krachkovskayamadame Gritsatsuyeva
Klara RumyanovaFather Fyodor's wife
Georgiy Vitsinfitter Mechnikov
Nikolay GorlovPolesov
Savely Kramarovone-eyed chess player
Yuriy Nikulinjanitor Tikhon
Viktor PavlovKolya, Liza's husband
Gotlib Roninsonchairman Kislyarsky
Roman Filippovpoet Nikifor Lyapis-Trubetskoy
Grigoriy ShpigelAleksandr Yakovlevich
Vladimir EtushAndrei Bruns
Igor YasulovichErnest Shchukin
Nina Agapovasoloist of theater "Kolumb"
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