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SOVIET-UNION · 1971

12 Chairs

Leonid Gaidai
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Synopsis

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.

Year1971
CountrySoviet-Union
DirectorLeonid Gaidai
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