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.

• DirectorLeonid Gaidai
• Release21 June 1971
• Genre
  Comedy / Adventure
• Duration2h 41m
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• Rate
  

  7.562
  161 reviews
• Productions

  Mosfilm