The read
It runs long at 2h 41m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb8.1/10
182 audience votes
Key crew
- Leonid GaidaiDirector
- Leonid GaidaiWriter
- Vladlen BakhnovWriter
- Aleksandr ZatsepinOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Archil GomiashviliOstap Bender
- Sergei FilippovIppolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov
- Mikhail PugovkinFather Fyodor
- Glikeriya Bogdanova-ChesnokovaYelena Stanislavovna Bour
- Natalya VarleyYelizaveta "Liza" Petrovna
- Natalya VorobyovaEllochka Shchukina
- Nina GrebeshkovaMusik, Bruns' wife
- Natalya Krachkovskayamadame Gritsatsuyeva
- Klara RumyanovaFather Fyodor's wife
- Georgiy Vitsinfitter Mechnikov
- Nikolay GorlovPolesov
- Savely Kramarovone-eyed chess player
Stills
Themes
based on novel or book