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The Twelve Months

1956 · 55 min

A charming, old-fashioned fairy tale that feels like a cozy winter storybook, with gentle satire and a warm heart.

Overview
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.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • class
  • power
  • family
  • justice
  • nature
Places
  • fantasy world
  • countryside
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
  • animated
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour5
Realism2
Romance0
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
fantasy, animation, family, adventure
Directed by
Ivan Ivanov-Vano
Written by
Samuil Marshak, Nikolay Erdman
Starring
Lyudmila Kasatkina, Galina Novozhilova, Georgiy Vitsin, Erast Garin, Grigoriy Shpigel, Tatyana Barysheva, Yuliya Yulskaya, Vladimir Volodin
Music
Mieczysław Weinberg
Cinematography
Elena Petrova, Nikolay Voinov
Runtime
55 min
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Russian

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