The Twelve Months (1956)
January 1, 1956Release Date
The Twelve Months (1956)
January 1, 1956Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Tatyana Barysheva
The Stepmother
Yuliya Yulskaya
The Daughter
Lyudmila Kasatkina
The Stepdaughter
Erast Garin
Professor (voice)
Galina Novozhilova
The Queen
Grigoriy Shpigel
Gardener (voice)
Ivan Ivanov-Vano
Director
Georgiy Vitsin
Raven (voice)
Mikhail Botov
Director
Aleksei Gribov
January (voice)
Samuil Marshak
Writer
Vladimir Volodin
The Wolf (voice)
Nikolay Erdman
Writer
Gennadiy Malyshev
(voice)
Mieczysław Weinberg
Composer
Elena Petrova
Cinematographer
Olga Gemmerling
(voice) / Scenic Artist
Anatoliy Sazonov
(voice) / Art Department Assistant
Vladimir Popov
Animation
Fyodor Khitruk
Animation
Boris Butakov
Animation
Elena Petrova
Cinematography
Nikolay Voinov
Cinematography
Kostiantyn Chykin
Animation
Vladimir Krumin
Animation
Natan Bitman
Production Manager
Faina Epifanova
Animation
Tatyana Fyodorova
Animation
Aleksandr Belyakov
Art Direction
Konstantin Karpov
Art Direction
Anatoliy Kuritsyn
Art Direction
Galina Andreeva
Assistant Director
Media.
Details.
Release DateJanuary 1, 1956
Original NameДвенадцать месяцев
StatusReleased
Running Time55m
Genres
Wiki.
The Twelve Months (Russian: Двенадцать месяцев; Dvenadtsat mesyatsev) is a 1956 Soviet traditionally animated feature film directed by the "patriarch of Russian animation", Ivan Ivanov-Vano. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow and is based on the fairy-tale play of the same name by Samuil Marshak. The scene of action in the animated film isn't specified, but on a picture it is clear that action happens in the West (in the original of the story of Marshak — in Bohemia, then part of the Austrian empire) at the turn of the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries. The animated film plot quite precisely reflects story events, thus the particular emphasis is placed on ridiculing the shortcomings of an absolute monarchy.
The film's sound and image were restored in by Krupnyy Plan, who released it on video and DVD in Russia in 2005. An English-subtitled edition of the Russian-language version has not been released. However, Films by Jove released the film on DVD in 1999 as "volume 3" of its Stories from My Childhood series - this version features a choice of English, French or Spanish soundtracks.