---
title: 'The Twelve Months (1956)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Ivan Ivanov-Vano'
released: '1956-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 52
genres:
  - 'Fantasy'
countries:
  - 'Soviet Union'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-twelve-months-1956'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218798/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Twelve Months (1956)

1956 · 52 min · Fantasy · Soviet Union

Original title: Двенадцать месяцев

## Synopsis

The Twelve Months 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 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Ivan Ivanov-Vano](https://cinepixo.com/people/ivan-ivanov-vano), [Mikhail Botov](https://cinepixo.com/people/mikhail-botov)
- **Producer:** [Ivan Ivanov-Vano](https://cinepixo.com/people/ivan-ivanov-vano)
- **Screenplay:** [Nikolai Erdman](https://cinepixo.com/people/nikolai-erdman), [Samuil Marshak](https://cinepixo.com/people/samuil-marshak)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Mieczysław Weinberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/mieczys-aw-weinberg)
- **Director of Photography:** [Olena Petrova](https://cinepixo.com/people/olena-petrova), [Nikolay Voinov](https://cinepixo.com/people/nikolay-voinov), [Elena Petrova](https://cinepixo.com/people/elena-petrova)

## Cast

- [Grigory Shpigel](https://cinepixo.com/people/grigory-shpigel)
- [Yuliya Yulskaya](https://cinepixo.com/people/yuliya-yulskaya)
- [Galina Novozhilova](https://cinepixo.com/people/galina-novozhilova)
- [Alexey Gribov](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexey-gribov)
- [Erast Garin](https://cinepixo.com/people/erast-garin)
- [Tatyana Barysheva](https://cinepixo.com/people/tatyana-barysheva)
- [Lyudmila Kasatkina](https://cinepixo.com/people/lyudmila-kasatkina)
- [Vladimir Volodin](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-volodin)
- [Georgy Vitsin](https://cinepixo.com/people/georgy-vitsin)

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