12 Chairs (1971)

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 (79)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

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

S

Shalva Gejadze

poster hanger

Georgi Georgiu

person in charge at "Skryabin"

A

Aleksandr Denisov

Vladimir Dorofeyev

club security guard

Ivan Zhevago

Dyadiev

Viktor Kolpakov

auction host

Yuri Medvedev

theater-goer

Radner Muratov

first chess player

N

Nikolay Pazhitnov

Charushnikov

Viktor Uralsky

Vladimir Ferapontov

actor of theater "Kolumb"

Aleksandr Khvylia

the owner of "Vakkhanyuk"

A

Arsen Berzin

(uncredited)

Olga Bogdanova

(uncredited)

Mikhail Bocharov

(uncredited)

Ivan Bychkov

(uncredited)

Vladimir Vanyshev

(uncredited)

Zoya Vasilkova

(uncredited)

N

Nelli Vitepash

(uncredited)

Vyacheslav Voynarovsky

(uncredited)

V

Vladimir Vyazovik

(uncredited)

Leonid Gaidai

Varfolomey Korobeinikov (uncredited)

M

Meer Goldovsky

(uncredited)

Aleksey Zaytsev

(uncredited)

N

Nina Zakharova

(uncredited)

Anatoliy Kalabulin

(uncredited)

Mikhail Kalinkin

(uncredited)

Andrey Kartashov

(uncredited)

E

Evgeniya Kiryakova

(uncredited)

Vasiliy Kornukov

(uncredited)

Yevgeni Krasavtsev

(uncredited)

Vladimir Kuznetsov

(uncredited)

Nikolay Kutuzov

(uncredited)

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