Screenplay: Yevgeni Petrov

Direction Leonid Gaidai

Cast Archil Gomiashvili · Sergei Filippov · Mikhail Pugovkin · Natalya Krachkovskaya

Direction Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Cast Enrique Santiesteban · Reynaldo Miravalles · René Sánchez · Idalberto Delgado

Plot 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...

Direction Grigori Aleksandrov

Cast Lyubov Orlova · Yevgeniya Melnikova · Vladimir Volodin · Sergei Stolyarov

Direction Mel Brooks

Cast Ron Moody · Frank Langella · Dom DeLuise · Andréas Voutsinas

Plot A treasure hunt. An aging ex-nobleman of the Czarist regime has finally adjusted to life under the commisars in Russia. Both he and the local priest find that the family...

Direction Carlo Mazzacurati

Cast Valerio Mastandrea · Isabella Ragonese · Giuseppe Battiston · Antonio Albanese

Direction Nicolas Gessner

Cast Sharon Tate · Vittorio Gassman · Orson Welles · Vittorio De Sica

Plot 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...

Direction Monty Banks

Cast George Formby · Florence Desmond · Gus McNaughton · Alastair Sim

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

Direction Mark Zakharov

Cast Andrey Mironov · Anatoli Papanov · Aleksandr Makarov · Nikolai Skorobogatov

Plot Two scoundrels try to find the twelve chairs, in one of which their aunts has sewn jewelry into.

Direction Mikhail Shvejtser

Cast Sergei Yursky · Leonid Kuravlyov · Zinoviy Gerdt · Evgeni Evstigneev

Plot 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.

Direction Martin Fric · Michal Waszynski

Cast Vlasta Burian · Adolf Dymsza · Zula Pogorzelska · Zofia Jaroszewska

Plot The barber by name of Ferdinand Suplátko learns that the late aunt has left him it all her money and house. He immediately goes to Warszawa for inheritance, but there...

Direction Gerbert Rappaport · Aleksandr Ivanovsky

Cast Sergei Lemeshev · Zoya Fyodorova · Nikolai Konovalov · Erast Garin

Plot Talented cabbie with aspirations as a singer spends afterhours practicing with an amateur opera company, ignoring his sweetheart, the femme cab dispatcher.

Direction Viktor Gromov

Plot A wealthy American retires with his family to the “Island of Peace”. All is well until oil is discovered and greed trumps Mr. Wolf’s peaceful attitudes. In the end the...

Direction Ulrike Ottinger

Cast Georgi Deliyev · Gennadiy Skarga · Svetlana Dyagilyeva · Boris Raev

Plot On her death bed, an old Russian aristocrat entrusts her son-in-law with a strictly guarded secret. Namely, that she had hidden all of her valuable jewelry in one of the...

Direction E.W. Emo

Cast Heinz Rühmann · Hans Moser · Inge List · Clementia Egies

Plot 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...

Direction Igor Zaytsev

Cast Sergey Bezrukov · Aram Vardevanyan · Nikita Kologrivyy · Taisiya Vilkova

Plot 1919 year. Fate confronts the young idealist Osya with the Turkish swindler Ibrahim Bender.

Direction Gerbert Rappaport

Cast Mikhail Zharov · Ludmila Tselikovskaya · Boris Blinov · Grigori Shpigel

Plot Flying Baranov, already old, lonely man falls in love with talented singer Natasha begins Kulikovu. Her parents are against marriage, but loving confident that created for each other and be...