Film dla Was: Dwanaście krzeseł - The Twelve Chairs

Dwanaście krzeseł - Dvanáct kresel - The Twelve Chairs (1933)

Directors: Michał Waszyński and Mac Fric

Poles and Czechs are very fond of this film, which was a Czech-Polish co-production, and the Russian book upon which it was based, by Ilya Ilf and Evgenii Petrov.

The main character, played by beloved Czech comedic actor Vlasta Burian, is a barber named Ferdynand who discovers that he's come into an inheritance -- but that it is comprised solely of twelve chairs. He takes them to a shop that will sell them, but in the meanwhile, he learns from his aunt that there is actually $100,000 hidden in one of them. The chairs, however, have already been sold. Ferdynand decides to try to get the chairs back, and the shop owner (played by the famous Polish actor Adolf Dymsza) helps him. (Based on Polish Wikipedia entry.)