The Twelve Chairs
1962 · 94 min · Comedy
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.
- Director
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
- Writers
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Ilya Ilf, Ugo Ulive, Yevgeni Petrov
- Released
- December 17, 1962
- Language
- Spanish
Cast
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