12 Chairs

Overview

Based on the famous novel by Ilya Il'f and Yevgeniy Petrov this two-part-TV-movie tells the story of the of Ostap Bender and Kisa Vorobyaninov who are searching for hidden jewelry, hidden in one of twelve chairs by Vorobyaninov's aristocratic mother-in-law, to hide it during the revolution. But their priest, Father Fyodor found out about it and starts searching for the same chairs. During the movie the story is commented by the authors themselves who are writing it during the process.

Cast

Nikolay Fomenko

Ilya Oleynikov

Anzhelika Varum

Nina Usatova

Oleksii Vertynskyi

Yuriy Galtsev

Olga Volkova

Lyudmila Gurchenko

Olha Kohut

Aleksandr Semchev