

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.
Ostap Bender

Ippolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov

Father Fyodor

Yelena Stanislavovna Bour

Yelizaveta "Liza" Petrovna

Ellochka Shchukina

Musik, Bruns' wife

madame Gritsatsuyeva

Father Fyodor's wife

fitter Mechnikov

Polesov

one-eyed chess player

janitor Tikhon

Kolya, Liza's husband

chairman Kislyarsky

poet Nikifor Lyapis-Trubetskoy

Aleksandr Yakovlevich

Andrei Bruns

Ernest Shchukin

soloist of theater "Kolumb"

editor of the magazine "Bride and Groom"

guide

Kisa's mother-in-law

actor of theater "Kolumb"

Pasha Emilevich

waiter

theater critic

poster hanger
person in charge at "Skryabin"

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club security guard

Dyadiev

auction host

theater-goer

first chess player

Charushnikov

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actor of theater "Kolumb"

the owner of "Vakkhanyuk"

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Ostap Bender (voice) (uncredited)

Ostap Bender (singing voice) (uncredited)

Yelizaveta "Liza" Petrovna (voice) (uncredited)
