I. Ilf, J. Petrov: Twelve Chairs

The main hero of the famous humorous novel is Ostap Bender, the son of a Turkish serf, a handsome young man who coincidentally meets the nobleman's chairman, Hypolit Matveyevich Vrabchinsky. He confides in him a secret that his mother-in-law told him just before her death. Three strings of pearls, wedding rings studded with brilliants, a bracelet in the shape of a quarrel, a pearl necklace, a forty-thousand-diamond tiara. Such a precious treasure was hidden by the former noblewoman Klaudia Ivanovna Kohoutova in one of the twelve chairs in the salon of her unfortunately also former house! One stormy revolutionary day, however, the family had to flee the house in haste to save their lives. Hyppolit Vrabchinsky, son-in-law of the unfortunate Klaudia Ivanovna, learns to his horror about the hidden family treasure only after ten years. Set in Soviet Russia in 1927, a frantic treasure hunt begins? Persons and cast: Hyppolitos (František Filipovský), Ostap Bender (Bohumil Bezouška). Nelly Gaier also performed, Oldřich Musil, Štěpánka Holečková, Jiri Bruder, Jaroslava Drmlová, Josef Vošalík and Bohumil Švarc.