The Twelve Chairs

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.

• Release date
• December 17, 1962
• Runtime
• 94 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Cast

Enrique Santisteban Hipólito Garrigó Reynaldo Miravalles Oscar René Sánchez El Cura Pilín Vallejo Gertrudis Idalberto Delgado Ernesto

A

Ana Viñas Manuel Pereiro

P

Pedro Martín Planas