Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 161 min
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- In Russian — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- based on novel or book
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Archil Gomiashvili
Ostap Bender
Sergei Filippov
Ippolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov
Mikhail Pugovkin
Father Fyodor
Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova
Yelena Stanislavovna Bour
- Natalya Varley — Yelizaveta "Liza" Petrovna
- Natalya Vorobyova — Ellochka Shchukina
- Nina Grebeshkova — Musik, Bruns' wife
- Natalya Krachkovskaya — madame Gritsatsuyeva
- Klara Rumyanova — Father Fyodor's wife
- Georgiy Vitsin — fitter Mechnikov
- Nikolay Gorlov — Polesov
- Savely Kramarov — one-eyed chess player
- Yuriy Nikulin — janitor Tikhon
- Viktor Pavlov — Kolya, Liza's husband
- Gotlib Roninson — chairman Kislyarsky
- Directed
- Leonid Gaidai
- Written
- Vladlen Bakhnov, Leonid Gaidai
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 181 ratings
- Studio
- Mosfilm
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