Fantasy ·Animation ·Family ·Adventure · Soviet Union · 1956 · 55m

The Twelve Months

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Director
Ivan Ivanov-Vano
Cast
Lyudmila Kasatkina as Stepdaughter (voice) Galina Novozhilova as The Queen (voice) Georgiy Vitsin as Raven (voice) Erast Garin as Professor (voice) Grigoriy Shpigel as Gardener (voice) Tatyana Barysheva as Stepmother (voice)
Crew
Nikolay Voinov — Director of Photography Elena Petrova — Director of Photography Mieczysław Weinberg — Original Music Composer Nikolay Erdman — Screenplay Samuil Marshak — Screenplay Aleksandr Belyakov — Production Design
Synopsis

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.

Mood & Themes
winterfour seasonsevil queennew year
Key Collaborators
Ivan Ivanov-Vano Director Nikolay Voinov Director of Photography Elena Petrova Director of Photography Mieczysław Weinberg Original Music Composer Nikolay Erdman Screenplay Samuil Marshak Screenplay Aleksandr Belyakov Production Design Anatoly Kuritsyn Production Design Konstantin Karpov Production Design
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