Cosmos Ottinger movie program - Zwölf Stühle

On her deathbed, an old Russian aristocrat confides a closely guarded secret to her son-in-law. She had hidden her valuable jewels in one of the twelve chairs of her old salon set, which had been expropriated after the revolution. Her son-in-law, the former aristocratic marshal and bon vivant Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, who ekes out a living as a registrar in a provincial town, immediately sets off in search of the treasure. The twelve chairs are now scattered all over the country. Ostap Bender, a shrewd, colorful crook who energetically takes over the hunt for the diamonds, is already hot on his heels at the first stop.

A fantastic journey begins from north to south and from west to east, by sea and by land, from the village to the metropolis. The odd couple have a rival in father Fjodor. He had extracted the last confession from the once wealthy aristocrat and thus knows her secret as the third in the alliance.