The Twelve Chairs

The Twelve Chairs (1962) is a comedy film directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea rated 7.5/10.

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.

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'