Comedy Adventure Crime
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.
Directed by
Leonid Gaidai
Written by
Leonid Gaidai, Vladlen Bakhnov
Yuriy Nikulin
janitor Tikhon
Klara Rumyanova
Father Fyodor's wife
Roman Filippov
poet Nikifor Lyapis-Trubetskoy
Savely Kramarov
one-eyed chess player
Georgiy Vitsin
fitter Mechnikov
Vladimir Etush
Andrei Bruns
Zoya Vasilkova
(uncredited)
Rina Zelyonaya
editor of the magazine "Bride and Groom"
Aleksey Zaytsev
(uncredited)
Nadezhda Rumyantseva
Yelizaveta "Liza" Petrovna (voice) (uncredited)
Valeriy Zolotukhin
Ostap Bender (singing voice) (uncredited)
Mikhail Pugovkin
Father Fyodor
Vladimir Dorofeyev
club security guard
Radner Muratov
first chess player
Archil Gomiashvili
Ostap Bender
Erast Garin
theater critic
Yuriy Sarantsev
Ostap Bender (voice) (uncredited)
Natalya Varley
Yelizaveta "Liza" Petrovna
Natalya Krachkovskaya
madame Gritsatsuyeva
Gotlib Roninson
chairman Kislyarsky
Igor Yasulovich
Ernest Shchukin
Viktor Uralsky
Nikolay Gorlov
Polesov
Irina Murzayeva
guide
Yuri Medvedev
theater-goer
Natalya Vorobyova
Ellochka Shchukina
Natalya Nazarova
(uncredited)
Vyacheslav Voynarovsky
(uncredited)
Ivan Zhevago
Dyadiev
Aleksandr Khvylia
the owner of "Vakkhanyuk"
Viktor Kolpakov
auction host
Nina Grebeshkova
Musik, Bruns' wife
Vladimir Ferapontov
actor of theater "Kolumb"
Yakov Lents
(uncredited)
Grigoriy Shpigel
Aleksandr Yakovlevich
Stanislav Sadalskiy
(uncredited)
Ruslan Akhmetov
actor of theater "Kolumb"
Viktor Fokin
(uncredited)
Pavel Vinnik
waiter
Viktor Pavlov
Kolya, Liza's husband
Nina Agapova
soloist of theater "Kolumb"
Mikhail Bocharov
(uncredited)
Rostislav Plyatt
narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Georgi Georgiu
person in charge at "Skryabin"
Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova
Yelena Stanislavovna Bour
Olga Bogdanova
(uncredited)
Sergei Filippov
Ippolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov
Nikolay Kutuzov
(uncredited)
Eduard Bredun
Pasha Emilevich
Yevdokiya Urusova
Kisa's mother-in-law
Yevgeni Krasavtsev
(uncredited)
Ivan Turchenkov
(uncredited)
Nikolai Pajitnov
Charushnikov
Vladimir Kuznetsov
(uncredited)
Aleksey Stroev
(uncredited)
Nikolay Vashchilin
Ivan Bychkov
(uncredited)
Vladimir Myshkin
(uncredited)
Vasiliy Kornukov
(uncredited)
Anatoliy Kalabulin
(uncredited)
Yuri Malkovskiy
(uncredited)
Andrey Kartashov
(uncredited)
Mikhail Kalinkin
(uncredited)
Vladimir Vanyshev
(uncredited)
Shalva Gejadze
poster hanger
Aleksandr Denisov
Arsen Berzin
(uncredited)
Nelli Vitepash
(uncredited)
Vladimir Vyazovik
(uncredited)
Meer Goldovsky
(uncredited)
Nina Zakharova
(uncredited)
Evgeniya Kiryakova
(uncredited)
Aleksandr Lapdhin
(uncredited)
Lydia Prikhodko
(uncredited)
Valeriy Prokhorov
(uncredited)
Valentin Smirnov
(uncredited)
Anatoli Chebotaryov
(uncredited)
Igor Shapovalov
(uncredited)
Oleg Savosin

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