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.
Yuriy Nikulin
дворник Тихон

Natalya Krachkovskaya
мадам Грицацуева

Natalya Varley
Лиза

Igor Yasulovich
инженер Щукин