12 Chairs

1971 · 2h33 · Film

Directed by Leonid Gaidai

Starring Archil Gomiashvili, Sergei Filippov, Mikhail Pugovkin, Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova, Natalya Varley, Natalya Vorobyova, Nina Grebeshkova, Natalya Krachkovskaya, Klara Rumyanova, Georgiy Vitsin

Ideal when you feel… Romantic Angry Nostalgic

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.

Updated August 14, 2026

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