Comedy / Adventure /

Score: 75.6%( 162 votes )

Overview: 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
Остап Бендер

Sergei Filippov
Киса Воробьянинов

Mikhail Pugovkin
Отец Фёдор

Nina Grebeshkova
Мусик / Царица Тамара

Yuriy Nikulin
дворник Тихон

Natalya Krachkovskaya
мадам Грицацуева

Natalya Varley
Лиза

Igor Yasulovich
инженер Щукин

Georgiy Vitsin
монтёр Мечников

Savely Kramarov
председатель шахматного клуба

Klara Rumyanova
попадья

Leonid Gaidai
Коробейников

Ivan Zhevago
редактор газеты «Станок»

Natalya Vorobyova
Эллочка Щукина

Vladimir Kuznetsov
шахматист (uncredited)

Anatoli Chebotaryov

Lydia Prikhodko