The Twelve Chairs

The Twelve Chairs

7.5IMDb Score
Released:1962-12-17
Genre:Comedy
Duration:94 min
Country:Cuba
Director:Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Actors:Enrique Santisteban, Reynaldo Miravalles, René Sánchez, Pilín Vallejo, Idalberto Delgado
Production:ICAIC

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.

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