A comedy based on the novel of the same name by I. Ilf and E. Petrov. Dying, the mother-in-law of the former socialite and leader of the nobility, and now a modest clerk at the district registry office Ippolit Vorobyaninov, revealed her secret to him: she hid the family jewels in one of the chairs of the living room set. The diamond frenzy turned Vorobyaninov's head, and he rushed off to search for the treasure. Here fate brought him together with the "great schemer" Ostap Bender, who wants to help him - of course, not unselfishly...
Director: Leonid Gaidai
Scriptwriters: Leonid Gaidai, Vladlen Bakhnov
Composer: Aleksandr Zatsepin
Camera operators: Sergey Poluyanov, Valery Shuvalov
Production designer: Evgeny Kumankov
Cast: Roman Filippov, Mikhail Pugovkin, Yuri Nikulin, Nina Grebeshkova, Natalya Krachkovskaya, Saveliy Kramarov, Natalya Varley, Vladimir Etush, Archil Gomiashvili, Viktor Pavlov, Sergey Filippov, Natalya Vorobyova, Igor Yasulovich, Nikolay Gorlov, Gotlib Roninson, Leonid Gaidai, Glikerya Bogdanova-Chesnokova