A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.
Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.
A hospital nurse becomes an "international girl" — a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.
