1962
7.6 (12 votes)
1h 34m
Genres
Comedy
Production Companies
ICAIC
The Twelve Chairs (Las doce sillas)
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Screenplay: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Ugo Ulive
Director of Photography: Ramón F. Suárez
Producer: Margarita Alexandre
Top Cast
Enrique Santisteban
Hipólito Garrigó
Reynaldo Miravalles
Oscar
René Sánchez
El Cura
Pilín Vallejo
Gertrudis
Idalberto Delgado
Ernesto
Ana Viñas
