

The Twelve Chairs
1962-12-17 · 94 min · ★ 7.5
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.
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- Directors
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
- Production companies
- ICAIC
- Countries
- Cuba
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- Released
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Enrique SantistebanHipólito Garrigó
Reynaldo MiravallesOscar
René SánchezEl Cura
Pilín VallejoGertrudis
Idalberto DelgadoErnesto
Manuel Pereiro
Raúl Xiqués
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