12 Chairs
12 стульев
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.
1971-06-21
ru
Cast
Director
Leonid Gaidai
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
Yuriy Nikulin as janitor Tikhon
Viktor Pavlov as Kolya, Liza's husband
Gotlib Roninson as chairman Kislyarsky
Roman Filippov as poet Nikifor Lyapis-Trubetskoy
Grigoriy Shpigel as Aleksandr Yakovlevich
Vladimir Etush as Andrei Bruns
Igor Yasulovich as Ernest Shchukin
Nina Agapova as soloist of theater "Kolumb"
Rina Zelyonaya as editor of the magazine "Bride and Groom"
Irina Murzayeva as guide
Yevdokiya Urusova as Kisa's mother-in-law
Ruslan Akhmetov as actor of theater "Kolumb"
Eduard Bredun as Pasha Emilevich
Pavel Vinnik as waiter
Erast Garin as theater critic
Georgi Georgiu as person in charge at "Skryabin"
Vladimir Dorofeyev as club security guard
Ivan Zhevago as Dyadiev
Viktor Kolpakov as auction host
Yuri Medvedev as theater-goer
Radner Muratov as first chess player
Viktor Uralsky
Vladimir Ferapontov as actor of theater "Kolumb"
Aleksandr Khvylia as the owner of "Vakkhanyuk"
Olga Bogdanova as (uncredited)
Mikhail Bocharov as (uncredited)
Ivan Bychkov as (uncredited)
Vladimir Vanyshev as (uncredited)
Zoya Vasilkova as (uncredited)
Vyacheslav Voynarovsky as (uncredited)
Leonid Gaidai as Varfolomey Korobeinikov (uncredited)
Aleksey Zaytsev as (uncredited)
Anatoliy Kalabulin as (uncredited)
Mikhail Kalinkin as (uncredited)
Andrey Kartashov as (uncredited)
Vasiliy Kornukov as (uncredited)
Yevgeni Krasavtsev as (uncredited)
Vladimir Kuznetsov as (uncredited)
Nikolay Kutuzov as (uncredited)
Yakov Lents as (uncredited)
Yuri Malkovskiy as (uncredited)
Vladimir Myshkin as (uncredited)
Natalya Nazarova as (uncredited)
Valeriy Prokhorov as (uncredited)
Stanislav Sadalskiy as (uncredited)
Aleksey Stroev as (uncredited)
Ivan Turchenkov as (uncredited)
Viktor Fokin as (uncredited)
Rostislav Plyatt as narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Yuriy Sarantsev as Ostap Bender (voice) (uncredited)
Valeriy Zolotukhin as Ostap Bender (singing voice) (uncredited)
Nadezhda Rumyantseva as Yelizaveta "Liza" Petrovna (voice) (uncredited)