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The Twelve Chairs

When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides all of her treasures in the 12 chairs of a dining-room set. After her death her nephew finds out what she had done and, since the chairs had been "nationalized" and are now in the possession of a dozen different people, he sets out to track them down and get the treasures he believes rightfully belong to him.

Release Date 1962-12-17
Rating 7.1 / 10 (10 votes)
Runtime 94 minutes
Budget $0
Revenue $0

Genres: Comedy

Directors: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Writers: Ilya Ilf, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Ugo Ulive, Yevgeni Petrov

IMDB: tt0055915


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