The Twelve Chairs Script

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Year:1962
Director:Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Written by:Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (Screenplay), Ilya Ilf (Novel), Ugo Ulive (Screenplay), Yevgeni Petrov (Novel)

Script Synopsis: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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