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