
161 minutes
6/21/1971
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.

Archil Gomiashvili
as Остап Бендер

Sergei Filippov
as Киса Воробьянинов

Mikhail Pugovkin
as Отец Фёдор

Nina Grebeshkova
as Мусик / Царица Тамара

Yuriy Nikulin
as дворник Тихон

Natalya Krachkovskaya
as мадам Грицацуева

Natalya Varley
as Лиза

Igor Yasulovich
as инженер Щукин

Georgiy Vitsin
as монтёр Мечников

Savely Kramarov
as председатель шахматного клуба

Klara Rumyanova
as попадья

Leonid Gaidai
as Коробейников

Ivan Zhevago
as редактор газеты «Станок»

Natalya Vorobyova
as Эллочка Щукина

Vladimir Kuznetsov
as шахматист (uncredited)
Anatoli Chebotaryov
Lydia Prikhodko