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Archil Gomiashvili | ... | Ostap Bender |
| Sergey Filippov | ... | Kisa Vorobyaninov | |
| Mikhail Pugovkin | ... | Father Fyodor | |
| Natalya Krachkovskaya | ... | M-me Gritsatsuyeva | |
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Natalya Vorobyova | ... | Ellochka Schukina |
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Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova | ... | Yelena Stanislavovna Bowr |
| Nina Grebeshkova | ... | Musik / Tsaritza Tamara | |
| Yuriy Nikulin | ... | Dvornik Tikhon | |
| Natalya Varley | ... | Liza | |
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Klara Rumyanova | ... | Katerina Alexandrovna, Father Fyodor's wife |
| Leonid Gayday | ... | Varfolomey Korobeynikov | |
| Igor Yasulovich | ... | Engineer Schukin | |
| Georgiy Vitsin | ... | Stage worker Mechnikov | |
| Saveliy Kramarov | ... | Chess club chairman | |
| Viktor Pavlov | ... | Kolya | |
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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. Written by Konstantin Dlutskii <kedlutski@mailexcite.com>
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Soviet UnionRelease Date:
2 November 1972 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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("Tango pirata")
Written by Aleksandr Zatsepin and Leonid Derbenyov
Performed by Valeriy Zolotukhin
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Georgiy Daneliya was originally set to direct, but he yielded the job to Leonid Gayday who wanted to direct the movie. See more »Goofs
When Ostap and Ippolit Matveevich are trying to sneak onboard the steamer disguised as loaders, a jet contrail is visible in the upward shot. See more »Crazy Credits
17 minutes before the ending there is an intertitle stating: There are 00 hours, 17 minutes and 19 seconds before the end of the film. See more »Soundtracks
Gde sredi pampasov begayut bizony...("Tango pirata")
Written by Aleksandr Zatsepin and Leonid Derbenyov
Performed by Valeriy Zolotukhin
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After seeing Andrei Mironov i Zakharov's "12 stulyev" (1977), it hard to imagine a better actor for the part of Ostap.
In general, this Gaidai's film is weak. The acting is too eccentric and unnatural, the sets and the music are too simplistic. Showing a "modern" Soviet Moscow at the end is completely out of place. Even such brilliant actors as Yuri Nikulin and Georgi Vitsin cannot save this film. My rating: 5/10.
If you want to see a much better films by Gaidai, look for "Ivan Vasilyevich" (1973) and especially "Kavkazskaya plennitsa" (1966).
As for "12 stulyev", try to see the film by Mark Zakharov.