12 Chairs

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.

Comedy Adventure Crime

Archil Gomiashvili

(Ostap Bender)

Sergei Filippov

(Ippolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov)

Mikhail Pugovkin

(Father Fyodor)

Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova

(Yelena Stanislavovna Bour)

Natalya Varley

(Yelizaveta "Liza" Petrovna)

Natalya Vorobyova

(Ellochka Shchukina)

Nina Grebeshkova

(Musik, Bruns' wife)

Natalya Krachkovskaya

(madame Gritsatsuyeva)

Klara Rumyanova

(Father Fyodor's wife)

Georgiy Vitsin

(fitter Mechnikov)

Nikolay Gorlov

(Polesov)

Savely Kramarov

(one-eyed chess player)

Yuriy Nikulin

(janitor Tikhon)

Viktor Pavlov

(Kolya, Liza's husband)

Gotlib Roninson

(chairman Kislyarsky)

Roman Filippov

(poet Nikifor Lyapis-Trubetskoy)

Grigoriy Shpigel

(Aleksandr Yakovlevich)

Vladimir Etush

(Andrei Bruns)

Igor Yasulovich

(Ernest Shchukin)

Nina Agapova

(soloist of theater "Kolumb")

Rina Zelyonaya

(editor of the magazine "Bride and Groom")

Irina Murzayeva

(guide)

Yevdokiya Urusova

(Kisa's mother-in-law)

Ruslan Akhmetov

(actor of theater "Kolumb")

Eduard Bredun

(Pasha Emilevich)

Pavel Vinnik

(waiter)

Erast Garin

(theater critic)

Shalva Gejadze

(poster hanger)

Georgi Georgiu

(person in charge at "Skryabin")

Aleksandr Denisov

Vladimir Dorofeyev

(club security guard)

Ivan Zhevago

(Dyadiev)

Viktor Kolpakov

(auction host)

Yuri Medvedev

(theater-goer)

Radner Muratov

(first chess player)

Nikolai Pajitnov

(Charushnikov)

Viktor Uralsky

Vladimir Ferapontov

(actor of theater "Kolumb")

Aleksandr Khvylia

(the owner of "Vakkhanyuk")

Arsen Berzin

((uncredited))

Olga Bogdanova

((uncredited))

Mikhail Bocharov

((uncredited))

Ivan Bychkov

((uncredited))

Vladimir Vanyshev

((uncredited))

Zoya Vasilkova

((uncredited))

Nelli Vitepash

((uncredited))

Vyacheslav Voynarovsky

((uncredited))

Vladimir Vyazovik

((uncredited))

Leonid Gaidai

(Varfolomey Korobeinikov (uncredited))

Meer Goldovsky

((uncredited))

Aleksey Zaytsev

((uncredited))

Nina Zakharova

((uncredited))

Anatoliy Kalabulin

((uncredited))

Mikhail Kalinkin

((uncredited))

Andrey Kartashov

((uncredited))

Evgeniya Kiryakova

((uncredited))

Vasiliy Kornukov

((uncredited))

Yevgeni Krasavtsev

((uncredited))

Vladimir Kuznetsov

((uncredited))

Nikolay Kutuzov

((uncredited))

Aleksandr Lapdhin

((uncredited))

Yakov Lents

((uncredited))

Yuri Malkovskiy

((uncredited))

Vladimir Myshkin

((uncredited))

Natalya Nazarova

((uncredited))

Lydia Prikhodko

((uncredited))

Valeriy Prokhorov

((uncredited))

Stanislav Sadalskiy

((uncredited))

Valentin Smirnov

((uncredited))

Aleksey Stroev

((uncredited))

Ivan Turchenkov

((uncredited))

Viktor Fokin

((uncredited))

Ivan Tsaryov

((uncredited))

Anatoli Chebotaryov

((uncredited))

Igor Shapovalov

((uncredited))

Rostislav Plyatt

(narrator (voice) (uncredited))

Yuriy Sarantsev

(Ostap Bender (voice) (uncredited))

Valeriy Zolotukhin

(Ostap Bender (singing voice) (uncredited))

Nadezhda Rumyantseva

(Yelizaveta "Liza" Petrovna (voice) (uncredited))