Nikolay Yevdokimov

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.

The film is dedicated to the working class. On the example of the fates of the main characters, their biographies and characters, it reveals such urgent problems as the attitude of a working man to labor, the conformity of his inclinations to his chosen profession. The obsession of the heroes and their complete dedication to their favorite work is the core of the script's dramaturgy. For both Nyurka and Mikhail Antonovich, the factory is their home, with which their entire lives are connected.

About the fate of a young girl who, under the influence of great love, left a religious sect where her parents brought her.

One day, a girl sits in the car of the director of a large plant, Pyotr Semenovich Polyakov, calls herself Varya and shows the found father a photo of her mother. And now, in search of the lost, the director comes to the city where he once loved Varina's mother, Zinaida...

The first post-war years. Serafim Frolov visits a girl he knows by correspondence. But she still remembers and loves her fiance, who died at the front. Serafim does everything to win her love...