The Twelve Chairs (1962)
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
Writers:
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Ugo Ulive.
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Enrique Santisteban as Hipólito Garrigó |
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Reynaldo Miravalles as Oscar |
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René Sánchez as El Cura |
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Pilín Vallejo as Gertrudis |
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Idalberto Delgado as Ernesto |
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Ana Viñas as |
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Manuel Pereiro as |
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Pedro Martín Planas as |
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Raúl Xiqués as |
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Gilda Hernández as |
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Silvia Planas as |
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Ricardo Suárez 'Tarafa' as |
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Carmen Garrido as |
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Dania Miró as |
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Humberto García Espinosa as |
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Maria Pardo as |
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Julio Matas as |
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Adriano Domínguez as |
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Yolanda Zamora as |
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Fausto Pinelo as |
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María Granados as |
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Estela de la Lastra as |
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Leonel Valdés as |
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Max Beltrán as |
| Directing | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Director |
| Writing | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Screenplay |
| Writing | Ilya Ilf | Novel |
| Writing | Ugo Ulive | Screenplay |
| Camera | Ramón F. Suárez | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Mario González | Editor |
| Art | Pedro García Espinosa | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Carmelina García | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Rolando Zaragoza | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Mario Franca | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Eugenio Vesa | Sound Editor |
| Writing | Yevgeni Petrov | Novel |
| Production | Margarita Alexandre | Producer |
| Sound | Juan Blanco | Music |