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Twelve Chairs
CUBA · 1962

Twelve Chairs

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
hidden treasure social revolution class conflict inheritance and legacy pursuit and obsession
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Synopsis

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

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