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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as Ippolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov
as Father Fyodor
as Yelena Stanislavovna Bour
as Yelizaveta "Liza" Petrovna
as Ellochka Shchukina
as Musik, Bruns' wife
as madame Gritsatsuyeva
as Father Fyodor's wife
as fitter Mechnikov
as Polesov
as one-eyed chess player
as janitor Tikhon
as Kolya, Liza's husband
as chairman Kislyarsky
as poet Nikifor Lyapis-Trubetskoy
as Aleksandr Yakovlevich
as Andrei Bruns
as Ernest Shchukin
as soloist of theater "Kolumb"
as editor of the magazine "Bride and Groom"
as guide
as Kisa's mother-in-law
as actor of theater "Kolumb"
as Pasha Emilevich
as waiter
as theater critic
as poster hanger
as person in charge at "Skryabin"
as club security guard
as Dyadiev
as auction host
as theater-goer
as first chess player
as Charushnikov
as actor of theater "Kolumb"
as the owner of "Vakkhanyuk"
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as Ostap Bender (voice) (uncredited)
as Ostap Bender (singing voice) (uncredited)
as Yelizaveta "Liza" Petrovna (voice) (uncredited)
