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.
as Остап Бендер
as Киса Воробьянинов
as Отец Фёдор
as Мусик / Царица Тамара
as дворник Тихон
as мадам Грицацуева
as Лиза
as инжинер Щукин
as монтёр Мечников
as председатель шахматного клуба
as попадья
as Коробейников
as редактор газеты «Станок»
as Эллочка Щукина
as шахматист (uncredited)