The Twelve Chairs (Russian: 12 стульев) is a 1976 four-episode musical television film directed by Mark Zakharov based on the 1928 novel of the same name by Ilf and Petrov.

The quiet life of registrar Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov is rocked by the sudden death of his mother-in-law Claudia Ivanovna, who admits that she sewed her diamonds into the seat of one of the twelve chairs belonging to their former living room set in order to hide it from Soviet forces, who had been confiscating treasures from everyone.

Before he can begin his quest, Ippolit Matveyevich meets a young swindler named Ostap Bender who coerces him into agreeing to help in the search in exchange for a percentage of the profit.

And as a result, I made a kind of literary and musical review with large text blockades, entirely extracted from the original source.In the scene of the meeting of the "Union of Sword and Plowshare", according to the director's idea, a talking parrot had to be present.

[3] The Twelve Chairs, much like its source material, is a social critique of society, opining on themes such as religion, culture, economic policy, morality and the transformation of Russia under early communism.

[citation needed] According to Alexander Melman (MK), Zakharov's Bender is "a disappointed intellectual to the core, a sad clown in the highest sense of the word" and all director's theatrical and film works contain a lot of personal: "70-80's, stagnation, you say?