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Twelfth Night (1955)

Twelfth Night poster
Original title
Двенадцатая ночь
Directed by
Yan Frid
Genre
comedy drama, romance film
Country
Soviet Union
Runtime
1h 26m
Rating
4.9 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman disguises herself as a man and falls in love with a countess. Mistaken identities and romantic confusions ensue at a seaside court.

whimsicalromanticlightheartedcheerfulnostalgictheatricalbittersweet

What happens

Twelfth Night (Russian: Двенадцатая ночь, transliteration Dvenadtsataya noch) is a 1955 Soviet romantic comedy-drama film produced by Lenfilm, based on Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, or What You Will. The script was written by Yan Frid. The film was released in the Soviet Union on 21 November 1955, and in the United States on 3 March 1956. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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