During the revolution and the brief period of war communism that followed, many hid their valuables as securely as possible. And so Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, a former Stargorod leader of the nobility and a secular lion, and now a modest clerk at the registry office, learns from her dying mother-in-law that she once hid her diamonds and pearls for a total of 150,000 gold rubles under the upholstery of one of the twelve chairs of the living room set by the famous master Gambs. Having abandoned everything, Vorobyaninov rushes in search of chairs, which, of course, is not disinterested, a young adventurer, the "great combinator" Ostap Bender undertakes to help him. Finding traces of a disjointed headset is not easy. It does not make the situation any easier that, before her death, Vorobyaninov's mother-in-law revealed the secret of the treasures to her confessor, Father Fyodor, who had dreamed of his own candle factory in Samara all his life... Actors: Irina Murzayeva, Vladimir Etush, Eduard Bredun, Ruslan Akhmetov, Glikeria Bogdanova-Chesnokova, Clara Rumyanova, Rina Zelenaya, Georgy Georgiu, Natalia Krachkovskaya, Viktor Kolpakov, Rostislav Plyatt, Gottlieb Roninson, Nikolai Gorlov, Archil Gomiashvili, Nina Agapova, Natalia Vorobyova, Ivan Zhevago, Sergey Filippov, Georgy Vitsin, Yuri Medvedev, Mikhail Pugovkin, Leonid Gaidai, Alexander Khvylya, Nina Grebeshkova, Grigory Shpigel, Yuri Nikulin, Viktor Pavlov, Pavel Vinnik, Natalia Varley, Savely Kramarov, Roman Filippov, Igor Yasulovich, Radner Muratov, Erast Garin