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The Twelve Months (1956 film)
Encyclopedia
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 film's sound and image were restored in 2003 by Krupnyy Plan, who released it on video and DVD in Russia
in 2004. 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.
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
traditionally-animated
Traditional animation
Traditional animation, is an animation technique where each frame is drawn by hand...
feature film
Feature film
In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
directed by the "patriarch of Russian animation", Ivan Ivanov-Vano
Ivan Ivanov-Vano
Ivan Pyetrovich Ivanov-Vano was a Soviet animator and Russian animation director, sometimes called the "Patriarch of Soviet animation"....
. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm
Soyuzmultfilm
Soyuzmultfilm is a Russian animation studio based in Moscow. Over the years it has gained international attention and respect, garnering numerous awards both at home and abroad. Noted for a great variety of style, it is regarded as the most influential animation studio of the former Soviet Union...
studio in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
and is based on the fairy-tale play of the same name by Samuil Marshak
Samuil Marshak
Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak was a Russian and Soviet writer, translator and children's poet. Among his Russian translations are William Shakespeare's sonnets, poems by William Blake and Robert Burns, and Rudyard Kipling's stories. Maxim Gorky proclaimed Marshak to be "the founder of [Russia's ]...
.
The film's sound and image were restored in 2003 by Krupnyy Plan, who released it on video and DVD in Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
in 2004. 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.
Plot
On an evening in January, a spoiled young queen sends her servant into the woods for the impossible task of finding April flowers in the midst of winter. The young peasant girl finds the flowers with the help of the personified twelve months.Creators
| English | Russian | |
|---|---|---|
| Director-producer | Ivan Ivanov-Vano Ivan Ivanov-Vano Ivan Pyetrovich Ivanov-Vano was a Soviet animator and Russian animation director, sometimes called the "Patriarch of Soviet animation".... |
Иван Иванов-Вано |
| Director | Mikhail Botov | Михаил Ботов |
| Scenario | Samuil Marshak Samuil Marshak Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak was a Russian and Soviet writer, translator and children's poet. Among his Russian translations are William Shakespeare's sonnets, poems by William Blake and Robert Burns, and Rudyard Kipling's stories. Maxim Gorky proclaimed Marshak to be "the founder of [Russia's ]... Nikolay Erdman |
Самуил Маршак Николай Эрдман |
| Art Directors | Anatoliy Kuritsyn Konstantin Karpov Aleksandr Belyakov Aleksandr Belyakov Aleksandr Belyakov was a Soviet luger who competed in the mid 1980s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won the silver medal in the men's doubles event at Sarajevo in 1984.... |
Анатолий Курицын Константин Карпов Александр Беляков |
| Artists | K. Malyshev O. Gemmerling Anatoliy Sazonov Y. Tannenberg V. Valerianova |
К. Малышев О. Геммерлинг Анатолий Сазонов Е. Танненберг В. Валерианова |
| Animators | L. Popov Yelena Hludova Konstantin Chikin Boris Butakov Nikolai Fyodorov Nikolai Fyodorov Nikolay Fyodorov may refer to:*Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov, Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher and futurist*Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin, Soviet military commander... Tatyana Fyodorova Fyodor Khitruk Fyodor Khitruk Fyodor Savelyevich Khitruk is one of the most influential animators and animation directors in Russian animation.-Biography:Khitruk was born in Tver, Russian Empire and came to Moscow to study graphic design at the OGIS College for Applied Arts. He graduated in 1936 and started to work with... Boris Meyerovich Faina Yepifanova Vladimir Krumin V. Ryabchikov Vladimir Popov |
Л. Попов Елена Хлудова Константин Чикин Борис Бутаков Николай Фёдоров Татьяна Фёдорова Фёдор Хитрук Борис Меерович Фаина Епифанова Владимир Крумин В. Рябчиков Владимир Попов |
| Camera Operators | Nikolai Voinov Yelena Petrova |
Николай Воинов Елена Петрова |
| Executive Producer | Natan Bitman | Натан Битман |
| Composer | Moisey Vaynberg | Моисей Вайнберг |
| Sound Operator | Nikolai Prilutskiy | Николай Прилуцкий |
External links
- The Twelve Months at animator.ruAnimator.ruAnimator.ru is a Russian website chronicling the films, people and studios of the animation industry in Russia, the former Soviet Union and the CIS. It also includes a forum, a news block, a photo-gallery and an animators labour exchange...
- The Twelve Months at myltik.ru
- The Twelve Months at Krupnyy Plan
- Stories From My Childhood, Vol. 3 at the Films by Jove website