12 Chairs

1971 · directed by Leonid Gaidai

Rating
79/100
Hit
no

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.

12 Chairs (1971), directed by Leonid Gaidai, rates 79/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

  • Archil Gomiashvili
  • Sergei Filippov
  • Mikhail Pugovkin
  • Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova
  • Natalya Varley
  • Natalya Vorobyova
  • Nina Grebeshkova
  • Natalya Krachkovskaya
  • Klara Rumyanova
  • Georgiy Vitsin

Crew

  • Sergei Poluyanov — Director of Photography
  • Valery Shuvalov — Director of Photography
  • Klavdia Aleeva — Editor
  • Aleksandr Zatsepin — Original Music Composer
  • Leonid Gaidai — Writer
  • Vladlen Bakhnov — Writer

More from Leonid Gaidai

  1. Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession (1973) — 81/100 · hit
  2. The Diamond Arm (1969) — 80/100 · hit
  3. Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures (1965) — 80/100 · hit
  4. Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967) — 80/100 · hit
  5. Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross (1961) — 78/100 · short, not counted
  6. Bootleggers (1961) — 76/100 · short, not counted

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