The Twelve Chairs / Двенадцать стульев

Ferdinand spent most of his as a barber. And he would probably stay like this for the rest of his life. But one day an attorney's clerk knocks on his door and tells him he became universal heir to his aunt, who had recently died in Warsaw.

A fortune in gems is hidden in one of six chairs, and it's up to the prospective heir to find it.

Rabe travels to Vienna in hope of a great inheritance from his aunt. But there are only 13 chairs waiting for him, which he sells. Then he finds a letter from the aunt announcing that she has hidden her money in one of the chairs.

The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.

Filip Palm works as a clerk. His hobby is creating inventions of different sorts. He has just received a big inheritance and has fallen in love with Gun.

The scam artist Jens Nielsen is in prison. In exchange for a cigarette, he is told by fellow prisoner, Sture Kaxe, that he has a precious jewel worth SEK 100,000 hidden away.

Felix inherits the apartment of his aunt, but it's empty except for 13 old chairs that he sells to antiques dealer Tobby. Then he learns auntie hid a fortune in one of the chairs. He tries to re-buy the lot but Tobby has already sold them.

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 her jewels in one of 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 jewels he believes rightfully belong to him.

A young playboy inherits 13 antique chairs and decides to sell them for money--then finds out where the real money is.

In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution.

Two gentlemen of fortune from the times of Imperial Russia are looking for an uncountable treasure at the dawn of the Soviet Union age.

Two scoundrels try to find twelve dining room chairs, into one of which a fortune in jewellery was sewn.

Based on the famous novel by Ilya Il'f and Yevgeniy Petrov this two-part-TV-movie tells the story of the of Ostap Bender and Kisa Vorobyaninov who are searching for hidden jewelry, hidden in one of twelve chairs by Vorobyaninov's aristocratic mother-in-law, to hide it during the revolution. But their priest, Father Fyodor found out about it and starts searching for the same chairs. During the movie the story is commented by the authors themselves who are writing it during the process.

A classic Russian story filmed at least half a dozen times including by Mel Brooks is updated for a portrait of society and politics in the now independent country of Ukraine in 2004.

Based on the famous novel by Ilya Il'f and Yevgeniy Petrov this two-part-TV-movie tells the story of the of Ostap Bender and Kisa Vorobyaninov who are searching for hidden jewelry, hidden in one of twelve chairs by Vorobyaninov's aristocratic mother-in-law, to hide it during the revolution. But their priest, Father Fyodor found out about it and starts searching for the same chairs. During the movie the story is commented by the authors themselves who are writing it during the process.