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12 Chairs
76%
Movie
2h 41m
AI Analysis
12 Chairs (1971) — AI movie analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of 12 Chairs (1971) — a movie tagged as Comedy, Adventure, and Crime with funny and epic moods and steady pacing.
Story & themes: A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds. Our models also surface themes such as ai and family from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for casual background watching. Expect steady storytelling (~161 min).
Community signal: TMDb members rate 12 Chairs 76% (171 votes) — strong audience scores for this movie.
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Synopsis
A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.
Quick facts
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- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 1971-06-21
- Runtime
- 2h 41m
- TMDB rating
- 7.6
- TMDB ID
- 31648
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What is 12 Chairs about?
A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Voro... This is the official synopsis available via TMDb community metadata.
Is there an AI analysis for 12 Chairs?
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How long is the movie 12 Chairs?
The official runtime for 12 Chairs is approximately 161 minutes.
Cast & crew
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Directors & writers
Cast
Archil Gomiashvili
Ostap Bender
Sergei Filippov
Ippolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov
Mikhail Pugovkin
Father Fyodor
Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova
Yelena Stanislavovna Bour
Natalya Varley
Yelizaveta "Liza" Petrovna
Natalya Vorobyova
Ellochka Shchukina
Nina Grebeshkova
Musik, Bruns' wife
Natalya Krachkovskaya
madame Gritsatsuyeva
Klara Rumyanova
Father Fyodor's wife
Georgiy Vitsin
fitter Mechnikov
Nikolay Gorlov
Polesov
Savely Kramarov
one-eyed chess player
Yuriy Nikulin
janitor Tikhon
Viktor Pavlov
Kolya, Liza's husband
Gotlib Roninson
chairman Kislyarsky
Roman Filippov
poet Nikifor Lyapis-Trubetskoy
Grigoriy Shpigel
Aleksandr Yakovlevich
Vladimir Etush
Andrei Bruns
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