Nikolai Ivanovich Balagalaev, the leader of the local nobility, planned to finalize the protracted division of the estate between retired collegiate registrar Ferapont Bespandin and his sister Kaurova, an estate they had inherited. He invited the persons interested in the amicable division to breakfast. After long, to the point of exhaustion, bickering and persuasion, there seems to be an agreement and, it seems, the division will be completed, but not so. Kaurova struggles, and a whirlwind of absurd scandals, quarrels and misunderstandings picks up everyone even more strongly.
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Tatyana Barysheva
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Andrey Fayt
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Aleksandr Khvylia
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Georgi Millyar
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Grigoriy Shpigel
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The Twelve Chairs
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Mikhail Troyanovsky
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Pyotr Lyubeshkin
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Anatoly Rybakov Director · Boris Lifanov Director Ivan Turgenev Story
First release December 11, 1953 · Produced in Russia · Original title Завтрак у предводителя
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Mosfilm
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Russia
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Original title
Завтрак у предводителя
Original language
Russian
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Russian
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Russia · December 11, 1953
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