Movielogr
The Twelve Chairs (1962)
Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Overview
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.
Length 94 minutes
Actors
Enrique Santisteban | Reynaldo Miravalles | René Sánchez | Pilín Vallejo | Idalberto Delgado | Ana Viñas | Manuel Pereiro | Pedro Martín Planas | Raúl Xiqués | Gilda Hernández | Silvia Planas | Ricardo Suárez 'Tarafa' | Carmen Garrido | Dania Miró | Humberto García Espinosa | Maria Pardo | Julio Matas | Adriano Domínguez | Yolanda Zamora | Fausto Pinelo | María Granados | Estela de la Lastra | Leonel Valdés | Max Beltrán