The Twelve Chairs (1970)

Director: Martin FriÄ, MichaÅ‚ WaszyÅ„ski
Cast: Adolf Dymsza, Eugeniusz Koszutski, Józef Kondrat, Stanislaw Belski, Vlasta Burian, Wanda Jarszewska, Wiktor BiegaÅ„ski, Zula Pogorzelska

Synopsis:

The first movie adaptation of the Russian novel “The Twelve Chairs” by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeniy Petrov. The basic idea from this movie, in which a barber and an antique salesman were searching for money hidden in one of of twelve chairs, was later reused for other official and unofficial adaptions of the book