The Twelve Chairs
6.9
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.
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Cast
24 people
Enrique Santisteban
Hipólito Garrigó
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Reynaldo Miravalles
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René Sánchez
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Pilín Vallejo
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Idalberto Delgado
Ernesto
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No me olvides nunca
Ana Viñas
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The Survivors
Waltz in Old Havana
Manuel Pereiro
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Rustlers' Rhapsody
Pedro Martín Planas
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El tesoro de Isla de Pinos
La rosa blanca
Raúl Xiqués
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Kassandra
Gilda Hernández
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Dios los cría...
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Death of a Bureaucrat
Ricardo Suárez 'Tarafa'
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Director · Ugo Ulive Screenplay Ilya Ilf Author
First release December 17, 1962 · Produced in Cuba · Production Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos
Production
ICAIC
Production
Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos
Production
Cuba
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Original title
Las doce sillas
Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
Spanish
Release dates
Cuba · December 17, 1962
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No release date listed for United States.
Russia
February 17, 1964 · Theatrical
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