12 Chairs (1971)
Original title: 12 стульев
12 Chairs is a 1971 Russian-language comedy movie directed by Leonid Gaidai, with a running time of 2h 41m. It stars Archil Gomiashvili, Sergei Filippov and Mikhail Pugovkin.
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 as Ostap Bender
- Sergei Filippov as Ippolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov
- Mikhail Pugovkin as Father Fyodor
- Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova as Yelena Stanislavovna Bour
- Natalya Varley as Yelizaveta "Liza" Petrovna
- Natalya Vorobyova as Ellochka Shchukina
- Nina Grebeshkova as Musik, Bruns' wife
- Natalya Krachkovskaya as madame Gritsatsuyeva
- Klara Rumyanova as Father Fyodor's wife
- Georgiy Vitsin as fitter Mechnikov
- Nikolay Gorlov as Polesov
- Savely Kramarov as one-eyed chess player