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.

• Mosfilm
• Archil Gomiashvili
• Sergei Filippov
• Mikhail Pugovkin
• Nina Grebeshkova
• Yuriy Nikulin
• Natalya Krachkovskaya
• Natalya Varley
• Igor Yasulovich