The Twelve Chairs
1962•1h 34m•7.5•Released
Comedy
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.
Director
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Writer
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Ugo Ulive
Languages
Spanish
Studio
ICAIC
Cast
Enrique Santisteban
Hipólito Garrigó
Reynaldo Miravalles
Oscar
René Sánchez
El Cura
Pilín Vallejo
Gertrudis
Idalberto Delgado
Ernesto
Ana Viñas
Manuel Pereiro
Pedro Martín Planas
Raúl Xiqués
Gilda Hernández
Silvia Planas
Ricardo Suárez 'Tarafa'
Carmen Garrido
Dania Miró
Humberto García Espinosa
Production
Company
ICAIC
Producer
Margarita Alexandre
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