Where to watch · United States
Not on any service here yet.
The Twelve Chairs (1962)
Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Comedy · 1h 34m
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.
Cast
Enrique Santisteban
Reynaldo Miravalles
René Sánchez
Pilín Vallejo
Idalberto Delgado
Manuel Pereiro
Raúl Xiqués
Crew
- Director
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
- Screenplay
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Ugo Ulive
- Novel
- Ilya Ilf, Yevgeni Petrov
- Director of Photography
- Ramón F. Suárez
- Editor
- Mario González
- Producer
- Margarita Alexandre
Details
- Original title
- Las doce sillas
- Release date
- 1962-12-17
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- ES
- Spoken languages
- Spanish
- Countries
- Cuba
- Production
- ICAIC