The Twelve Chairs
– When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up a..
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.
17 Dec 1962
Spanish
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Ilya Ilf (novel), Yevgeni Petrov (novel), Ugo Ulive (screenplay), Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (screenplay)
Enrique Santisteban, Reynaldo Miravalles, René Sánchez, Pilín Vallejo
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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