The Twelve Chairs (Russian: 12 стульев, romanized: Dvenadtsat stulyev) is a 1971 Soviet comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai.

[1] It is an adaptation of Ilf and Petrov's 1928 novel The Twelve Chairs.

Ostap Bender, shortly after arriving in Stargorod, meets Ippolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov, a Marshal of Nobility who is looking for a set of 12 chairs that belonged to his mother-in-law, who on her deathbed confesses of hiding diamonds in one of them.

Ostap and Kisa decide to go on the search together, traveling all around Russia and having a series of misadventures.

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