The film is based on the feuilleton of the same name by I. Ilf and E. Petrov. A writer named Moldovantsev delivers a thrilling Soviet‐style Robinson Crusoe adventure on deadline, only to have his editor insist on adding a local party chairman, freed ex‐members, an activist collector, a housing committee and even a meeting table, bell and ledger washed ashore. Reluctantly he complies, so far that he jettisons Robinson himself as an unjustified weakling, transforming his novel into an absurd manifesto of bureaucratic excess.

Former KGB agent finds out that his mother in law has hidden her treasures in one of chairs. Fast after he starts the search of diamonds and meets an aggressive modern man who helps him in his endeavors all over the place in nowadays Lithuania. Two very different men are united in their mutual desire to get rich.

US - Vaudeville dancer Marion Dixon is with her German manager von Kneischitz on tour in Moscow. Her act includes a gun shooting her to the trapeze, the stage director there wants a copy of this act for the USSR. She falls in love with a Soviet enginer, but von Kneischitz blackmails her with her dark spot in her life, she has a colored baby, to leave Moscow.

在《十二把椅子》结尾被杀害的奥斯塔普·班德尔并没有死，他奇迹般地活了下来。为了一夜暴富，前往从小期盼的里约热内卢生活，这次他的目标是一位通过不义手段攒下大量钱财的苏联地下百万富翁科列科。班德尔再次带着一群跟班，在苏联各地展开行骗之旅……

This is a collection of five satyrical short films, including little intermision talk: 1) "Kak Sozdavalsya Robinzon" (How Robinson was Created) - writer is comissioned to make soviet version of Robinson Cruzoe; 2) "Istoriya s Pirozhkami" (Incident with Pastries) - customer has problems paying for pastries, because he has eaten them before getting to the counter; 3) "Inostrantsy" (Foreigners) - about russian people who want to be more like western people; 4) "Priyatnogo Appetita" (Bon Appetit) - one episode for restaurant life; 5) "Pyos Baros i Neobchainy Kross" (Barbos the hound and Unusual Cross-country Race) - first appearance of later famous Morgunov/Nikulin/Vitsin trio in tale about fishing with dinamite instead of fishing rods