The Twelve Chairs (1971 film)

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The Twelve Chairs
Directed byLeonid Gaidai
Written by
  • Vladlen Bakhnov
  • Leonid Gaidai
Based onThe Twelve Chairs
by Ilf and Petrov
StarringArchil Gomiashvili
Sergey Filippov
Mikhail Pugovkin
Natalya Krachkovskaya
Narrated byRostislav Plyatt
CinematographySergei Poluyanov
Valery Shuvalov
Music byAleksandr Zatsepin
Production
company
Release date
  • 21 June 1971 (1971-06-21)
Running time
159 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

The Twelve Chairs (Russian: 12 стульев, romanizedDvenadtsat stulyev) is a 1971 Soviet comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai.[1] It is an adaptation of Ilf and Petrov's 1928 novel The Twelve Chairs.

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Ostap Bender, shortly after arriving in Stargorod, meets Ippolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov, a Marshal of Nobility who's looking for a set of 12 chairs that belonged to his mother-in-law, who on her deathbed confesses of hiding diamonds in one of them. However, the confession is overheard by Father Fyodor, who is also looking for them. Ostap and Kisa decide to go on the search together, traveling all around Russia and having a series of misadventures.

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