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.
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Cast
Natalya Varley
Yelizaveta "Liza" Petrovna
Ruslan Akhmetov
actor of theater "Kolumb"
Eduard Bredun
Pasha Emilevich
Nikolay Kutuzov
(uncredited)
Valeriy Prokhorov
(uncredited)
Nadezhda Rumyantseva
Yelizaveta "Liza" Petrovna (voice) (uncredited)
Gotlib Roninson
chairman Kislyarsky
Rina Zelyonaya
editor of the magazine "Bride and Groom"
Erast Garin
theater critic
Zoya Vasilkova
(uncredited)
Anatoliy Kalabulin
(uncredited)
Mikhail Kalinkin
(uncredited)
Vladimir Etush
Andrei Bruns
Radner Muratov
first chess player
Klara Rumyanova
Father Fyodor's wife
Mikhail Bocharov
(uncredited)
Vladimir Myshkin
(uncredited)
Viktor Kolpakov
auction host
Vladimir Vanyshev
(uncredited)
Yevgeni Krasavtsev
(uncredited)
Yakov Lents
(uncredited)
Natalya Nazarova
(uncredited)
Sergei Filippov
Ippolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov
Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova
Yelena Stanislavovna Bour
Nikolay Gorlov
Polesov
Aleksandr Khvylia
the owner of "Vakkhanyuk"
Yuri Medvedev
theater-goer
Leonid Gaidai
Varfolomey Korobeinikov (uncredited)
Vasiliy Kornukov
(uncredited)
Archil Gomiashvili
Ostap Bender
Yevdokiya Urusova
Kisa's mother-in-law
Viktor Uralsky
Viktor Pavlov
Kolya, Liza's husband
Igor Yasulovich
Ernest Shchukin
Irina Murzayeva
guide
Pavel Vinnik
waiter
Stanislav Sadalskiy
(uncredited)
Rostislav Plyatt
narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Valeriy Zolotukhin
Ostap Bender (singing voice) (uncredited)
Vladimir Ferapontov
actor of theater "Kolumb"
Vyacheslav Voynarovsky
(uncredited)
Aleksey Zaytsev
(uncredited)
Ivan Turchenkov
(uncredited)
Grigoriy Shpigel
Aleksandr Yakovlevich
Vladimir Dorofeyev
club security guard
Yuriy Sarantsev
Ostap Bender (voice) (uncredited)
Natalya Krachkovskaya
madame Gritsatsuyeva
Georgiy Vitsin
fitter Mechnikov
Roman Filippov
poet Nikifor Lyapis-Trubetskoy
Ivan Bychkov
(uncredited)
Andrey Kartashov
(uncredited)
Aleksey Stroev
(uncredited)
Mikhail Pugovkin
Father Fyodor
Olga Bogdanova
(uncredited)
Yuri Malkovskiy
(uncredited)
Viktor Fokin
(uncredited)
Natalya Vorobyova
Ellochka Shchukina
Nina Grebeshkova
Musik, Bruns' wife
Savely Kramarov
one-eyed chess player
Nina Agapova
soloist of theater "Kolumb"
Vladimir Kuznetsov
(uncredited)
Yuriy Nikulin
janitor Tikhon
Georgi Georgiu
person in charge at "Skryabin"
Ivan Zhevago
Dyadiev