The Twelve Chairs(1970)
A wild and hilarious chase for a fortune in jewels.
In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution.
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