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.
Young man Kesha starts working in the Kindergarten.
The captain of one of the fishing seiners in the Far East, having accidentally discovered a large school of fish, did not notify the other crews, contrary to established traditions and regulations. The "race" in the ocean caused the accident, and now the gathered comrades intend to understand the sincerity and heroism of their colleague.
Reminiscing the 1917 Russian October Revolution, a time when the films' director was 14 years old.
Satirical comedy based on the notebooks and short stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: "Romance with Double-Bass","On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco", "Misery", "Grateful", "Polinka", "The Cynic", "The Ninny".
A girl named Patchwork and the real cloud fight the evil king Fontanius I and his treacherous subordinates.
