In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution.

Ron Moody
as Ippolit Vorobyaninov

Frank Langella
as Ostap Bender

Dom DeLuise
as Father Fyodor

Andréas Voutsinas
as Nikolai Sestrin

Diana Coupland
as Diana Coupland

Mel Brooks
as Tikon

David Lander
as Engineer Bruns
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For a Mel Brooks movie, far from the best. For a 60-70's comedy, I've definitely seen better. A poor man's Mad Mad Mad Mad World. "Was it interesting?" That was the best part. The story is complex, characters were developed with reasonable motivations. It's just the transition to a movie that did...