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