The Twelve Months (1956)
Dvenadtsat mesyatsev (original title)Reference View | Change View
- 55min
- Animation, Family
- 1956 (Soviet Union)
- Movie
A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months.
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Cast
| Tatyana Barysheva | ... |
The Stepmother (voice)
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Yuliya Yulskaya | ... |
The Daughter (voice)
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| Lyudmila Kasatkina | ... |
The Stepdaughter (voice)
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Galina Novozhilova | ... |
The Queen (voice)
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| Grigoriy Shpigel | ... |
The Gardener (voice)
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| Georgiy Vitsin | ... |
The Crow / The Herald / The Parrot / The February (voice)
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| Aleksey Gribov | ... |
The January (voice)
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Vladimir Volodin | ... |
The Wolf (voice)
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Gennadiy Malyshev | ... |
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Olga Gemmerling | ... |
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Anatoliy Sazonov | ... |
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| Erast Garin | ... |
The Professor (uncredited) (voice)
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Directed by
| Ivan Ivanov-Vano | ... | (as I. Ivanov-Vano) |
| Mikhail Botov | ... | (co-director) (as M. Botov) |
Written by
| Samuil Marshak | ... | (screenplay) (as S. Marshak) and |
| Nikolay Erdman | ... | (screenplay) (as N. Erdman) |
Music by
| Moisey Vaynberg | ... | (as M. Vaynberg) |
Cinematography by
| Elena Petrova | ... | (as E. Petrova) |
| Nikolay Voinov | ... | (as N. Voinov) |
Art Direction by
| Aleksandr Belyakov | ... | (as A. Belyakov) |
| Konstantin Karpov | ... | (as K. Karpov) |
| Anatoliy Kuritsyn | ... | (as A. Kuritsyn) |
Production Management
| Natan Bitman | ... | production manager (as N. Bitman) / production manager |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
| Galina Andreeva | ... | assistant director (as G. Andreeva) |
| Lidiya Sazonova | ... | assistant director (as L. Sazonova) |
| V. Sveshnikova | ... | assistant director |
Art Department
| Olga Gemmerling | ... | scene painter (as O. Gemmerling) |
| Konstantin Malyshev | ... | scene painter (as K. Malyshev) |
| Anatoliy Sazonov | ... | sketches and types (as A. Sazonov) |
| Tatyana Sazonova | ... | assistant art director (as T. Sazonova) |
| Elena Tannenberg | ... | scene painter (as E. Tannenberg) |
| Vera Valeryanova | ... | scene painter (as V. Valeryanova) |
Sound Department
| Nikolay Prilutskiy | ... | sound (as N. Prilutskiy) |
Animation Department
| Boris Butakov | ... | animator (as B. Butakov) |
| Konstantin Chikin | ... | animator (as K. Chikin) |
| Faina Epifanova | ... | animator (as F. Epifanova) |
| Nikolay Fyodorov | ... | animator (as N. Fyodorov) |
| Tatyana Fyodorova | ... | animator (as T. Fyodorova) |
| Fyodor Khitruk | ... | animator (as F. Khitruk) |
| Elena Khludova | ... | animator (as E. Khludova) |
| Vladimir Krumin | ... | animator (as V. Krumin) |
| Boris Meerovich | ... | animator (as B. Meerovich) |
| Lev Popov | ... | animator (as L. Popov) |
| Vladimir Popov | ... | animator (as V. Popov) |
| Vasiliy Ryabchikov | ... | animator (as V. Ryabchikov) |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Artkino Pictures (1958) (Argentina) (theatrical)
- Empresa Hispanoamericana de Video (EHV) (Argentina) (VHS)
- Filmjuwelen (2023) (Germany) (Blu-ray)
- Filmjuwelen (2023) (Germany) (DVD)
- Icestorm Entertainment (2005) (Germany) (DVD)
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Storyline
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Winter. Royal Palace. The young queen is taking classes. The professor talks about the seasons, and when she mentions spring snowdrops, the queen declares that she wants to have them in her palace immediately. The professor tries to convince her that it is impossible in January, but the queen issues a decree where she promises the same basket of gold for a basket of flowers. The greedy Stepmother and her lazy Daughter, upon learning of the royal reward, immediately send the Stepdaughter into the forest for snowdrops. Written by Peter-Patrick76 (peter-patrick@mail.com) |
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | The film was restored at the Gorkiy Film Studio in 1987. Recovery director - Vladimir Berenshteyn. See more » |
| Movie Connections | Version of Mori wa ikiteiru (1956). See more » |