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.

Credits

Leonid GaidaiDirector

Archil GomiashviliОстап Бендер

Sergei FilippovКиса Воробьянинов

Mikhail PugovkinОтец Фёдор

Nina GrebeshkovaМусик / Царица Тамара