Ilya Ilf

A treasure hunt. An aging ex-nobleman of the Czarist regime has finally adjusted to life under the commisars in Russia... (imdb)

A barber inherits 13 old chairs and, after he angrily throws them away, he learns that one of them is concealing a huge fortune!

A Cuban version of the famous Soviet novel of the same name. An impoverished businessman, learning of some jewels hidden in one of twelve chairs, schemes to get them, aided by a con man and in competition with a greedy priest.

Two scoundrels try to find the twelve chairs, in one of which their aunts has sewn jewelry into (imdb)

Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to sell off them to get some money. Afterwards he gets to know that one of them contains documents worth a lot of money. So he begins an adventurous trip to regain possession of the chair. On the way he meets many strange people who would like to help or to swindle him. (imdb)

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

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. (imdb)

Despite being on his uppers, George is still prepared to pawn his beloved banjo in order to help his girlfriend save her niece from the orphanage. Help seems to be at hand when George is left a fortune by his old auntie, but unfortunately his inheritance is hidden inside a chair which has already been auctioned off! Can George and his chums track down his rightful due before his grasping solicitor (Alastair Sim, in an early film appearance) snatches the lot?

The Twelve Chairs is a classic satirical novel by the Odessan Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov. The novel has inspired twenty adaptations in Russia and abroad. The first cinema adaptation of the novel was the joint Polish-Czech film Dvanáct k?esel (1933). The original plot was considerably altered yet many following adaptations were primarily based on this film rather than on the novel itself.

A crook named Ostap Bender, who survived a murder attempt by Kisa Vorobyaninov in "12 Chairs," now schemes to extort 1 million from an underground millionaire. (imdb)

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. (imdb)