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 стульев is of 2 hour(s) and 41 minute(s). It is Produced By: Mosfilm. It was released on 1971-06-21. It has an average vote of 7.568 on TMDB.
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