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.
Leonid Gaidai | Writer |
Vladlen Bakhnov | Writer |
Leonid Gaidai | Director |
Sergei Poluyanov | Director of Photography |
Valery Shuvalov | Director of Photography |
Yevgeni Kumankov | Art Direction |
Klavdiya Aleyeva | Editor |
Yevgeni Petrov | Novel |
Ilya Ilf | Novel |
Aleksandr Zatsepin | Original Music Composer |