The Twelve Months (1956)
- Original title
- Двенадцать месяцев
- Directed by
- Mikhail Botov, Ivan Ivanov-Vano
- Genre
- fairy tale, fantasy film
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Runtime
- 52 min
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 56 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A young girl is sent into a snowy forest in winter to find flowers for a cruel queen. With the help of the twelve months of the year, she discovers that kindness and courage can overcome selfishness and greed.
fairy-talewhimsicalfolkloricvisually stylizedpoeticsatiricalmusicalmeditative
What happens
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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Таёжная сказка (1951)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.