The Twelve Chairs
Overview
Cast & Crew
Production House
The Plot
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.
Run Time
1h 34m
Genre
Comedy
Release Date
17 Dec 1962
Country
Cuba
Language
Spanish
Director & Producers
Top Billed Cast

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Margarita Alexandre
Enrique Santisteban
Reynaldo Miravalles
René Sánchez
Pilín Vallejo
Idalberto Delgado
Manuel Pereiro
Raúl Xiqués
Ilya Ilf
Ugo Ulive
Yevgeni Petrov