The Twelve Chairs
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- Runtime
- 94 mins
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.
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
- Reynaldo Miravalles
- René Sánchez
- Pilín Vallejo
- Idalberto Delgado
- Ana Viñas
- Manuel Pereiro
- Pedro Martín Planas
- Raúl Xiqués
- Gilda Hernández
- Silvia Planas
- Ricardo Suárez 'Tarafa'
- Carmen Garrido
- Dania Miró
- Humberto García Espinosa
- Maria Pardo
- Julio Matas
- Adriano Domínguez
- Yolanda Zamora
- Fausto Pinelo
- María Granados
- Estela de la Lastra
- Leonel Valdés
- Max Beltrán
Director
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Producers
- Margarita Alexandre
Screenwriter
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
- Ugo Ulive
