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.
| Writing | Vladlen Bakhnov | Writer |
| Writing | Leonid Gaidai | Writer |
| Directing | Leonid Gaidai | Director |
| Writing | Ilya Ilf | Book |
| Writing | Yevgeni Petrov | Book |
| Camera | Sergei Poluyanov | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Valery Shuvalov | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Aleksandr Zatsepin | Music |
| Art | Yevgeni Kumankov | Art Direction |
| Editing | Klavdiya Aleyeva | Editor |
