Twelve Chairs

Overview

...Her son-in-law, Ippolit Matwejewitch Worobjaninow, is a former nobleman and a dandy who is currently wasting away as a small town magistrate in charge of civil marriages. He eagerly takes up the quest to find the treasure. Meanwhile, over the years, the twelve chairs have been dispersed all over the country. However, Worobjaninow is not the only one in pursuit of the treasure. Hot on its trail are Ostap Bender, a clever and colorful conman, as well as Father Fjodor, a priest to whom the wealthy aristocrat has also confessed her secret. Thus begins a wild chase that ranges from North to South, West to East, across water and land, from the country to the city.

Directed by Ulrike Ottinger

Top cast

Georgiy Deliev

Ostap Bender

Gennadiy Skarga

Ippolit Matveevich Vorobyaninov

S

Svetlana Dyagilyeva

Klavdiya Ivanovna Petukhova

B

Boris Raev

Father Fyodor

Iryna Tokarchuk

Elena Stanislavovna Bour

O

Oksana Burlay-Piterova

Liza

Irina Kovalskaya

Agafya Tikhonovna

Natalya Buzko

Ellochka the Cannibal

A

Alla Brodskaya

Katerina Aleksandrovna

Anatoli Paduka

Vartholomey Korobeinikov

G

Georgiy Derevyanskiy

Tikhon the janitor

Mikhail Malitskiy

Persitsky

P

Pavel Kolomiychuk

Iznurenkov

L

Leonid Anisimov

Alkhen

V

Vsevolod Kabanov

Valeriy Bassel

Arthur Litvinov

Alexandra Svenskaya

Peter Fitz

Narrator

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