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