12 Chairs

Comedy, Adventure, Crime

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Leonid Gaidai

Status Released

Release Date 1971-06-21

Storyline

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.