

12 Chairs
77%
176 TMDB ratings
Directed by Leonid Gaidai
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.
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

Yuriy Nikulin
janitor Tikhon

Viktor Pavlov
Kolya, Liza's husband

Gotlib Roninson
chairman Kislyarsky

Roman Filippov
poet Nikifor Lyapis-Trubetskoy

Grigoriy Shpigel
Aleksandr Yakovlevich

Vladimir Etush
Andrei Bruns

Igor Yasulovich
Ernest Shchukin

Nina Agapova
soloist of theater "Kolumb"

Rina Zelyonaya
editor of the magazine "Bride and Groom"

Irina Murzayeva
guide

Yevdokiya Urusova
Kisa's mother-in-law

Ruslan Akhmetov
actor of theater "Kolumb"

Eduard Bredun
Pasha Emilevich

Pavel Vinnik
waiter

Erast Garin
theater critic
Shalva Gejadze
poster hanger

Georgi Georgiu
person in charge at "Skryabin"
Aleksandr Denisov

Vladimir Dorofeyev
club security guard

Ivan Zhevago
Dyadiev

Viktor Kolpakov
auction host

Yuri Medvedev
theater-goer

Radner Muratov
first chess player
Nikolay Pazhitnov
Charushnikov

Viktor Uralsky

Vladimir Ferapontov
actor of theater "Kolumb"

Aleksandr Khvylia
the owner of "Vakkhanyuk"
Arsen Berzin
(uncredited)

Olga Bogdanova
(uncredited)

Mikhail Bocharov
(uncredited)

Ivan Bychkov
(uncredited)

Vladimir Vanyshev
(uncredited)

Zoya Vasilkova
(uncredited)
Nelli Vitepash
(uncredited)

Vyacheslav Voynarovsky
(uncredited)
Vladimir Vyazovik
(uncredited)

Leonid Gaidai
Varfolomey Korobeinikov (uncredited)
Meer Goldovsky
(uncredited)

Aleksey Zaytsev
(uncredited)
Nina Zakharova
(uncredited)

Anatoliy Kalabulin
(uncredited)

Mikhail Kalinkin
(uncredited)

Andrey Kartashov
(uncredited)
Evgeniya Kiryakova
(uncredited)

Vasiliy Kornukov
(uncredited)

Yevgeni Krasavtsev
(uncredited)

Vladimir Kuznetsov
(uncredited)

Nikolay Kutuzov
(uncredited)
Aleksandr Lapdhin
(uncredited)

Yakov Lents
(uncredited)

Yuri Malkovskiy
(uncredited)

Vladimir Myshkin
(uncredited)

Natalya Nazarova
(uncredited)
Lydia Prikhodko
(uncredited)

Valeriy Prokhorov
(uncredited)

Stanislav Sadalskiy
(uncredited)
Valentin Smirnov
(uncredited)

Aleksey Stroev
(uncredited)

Ivan Turchenkov
(uncredited)

Viktor Fokin
(uncredited)
Ivan Tsaryov
(uncredited)
Anatoli Chebotaryov
(uncredited)
Igor Shapovalov
(uncredited)

Rostislav Plyatt
narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Yuriy Sarantsev
Ostap Bender (voice) (uncredited)

Valeriy Zolotukhin
Ostap Bender (singing voice) (uncredited)

Nadezhda Rumyantseva
Yelizaveta "Liza" Petrovna (voice) (uncredited)
Crew

Leonid Gaidai
Director
E. Galkovskaya
Assistant Director
I. Tsetnerovich
Assistant Director
Natalya Sysoeva
Assistant Director
Marina Koldobskaya
First Assistant Director

Leonid Gaidai
Writer

Vladlen Bakhnov
Writer

Yevgeni Petrov
Novel

Ilya Ilf
Novel
Nikolay Yevdokimov
Script Editor

Leonid Derbenyov
Lyricist
Arkadiy Ashkinazi
Executive Producer
Details
- Release date
- June 21, 1971
- Runtime
- 2h 41m
- Director
- Leonid Gaidai
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