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, Sergei Filippov, Mikhail Pugovkin, Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova, Natalya Varley, Natalya Vorobyova,

Genre:Comedy, Adventure, Crime,

country:Soviet Union,

Production:Mosfilm,