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.
Archil Gomiashvili
Sergei Filippov
Mikhail Pugovkin
Nina Grebeshkova
Yuriy Nikulin
Natalya Krachkovskaya
Natalya Varley
Igor Yasulovich
Georgiy Vitsin
Savely Kramarov
Klara Rumyanova
Leonid Gaidai
Ivan Zhevago
Natalya Vorobyova
Vladimir Kuznetsov