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.
Writer: Vladlen Bakhnov, Leonid Gaidai
Director: Leonid Gaidai
Director of Photography: Valery Shuvalov, Sergei Poluyanov
Остап Бендер
Киса Воробьянинов
Отец Фёдор
Мусик / Царица Тамара
дворник Тихон
мадам Грицацуева
Лиза
инженер Щукин