The Twelve Months

The Twelve Months

1956 · 55 min · ★ 6.3 · Fantasy, Animation, Family, Adventure

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.

Directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano · Written by Nikolay Erdman

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Lyudmila Kasatkina Stepdaughter (voice)
Galina Novozhilova The Queen (voice)
Georgiy Vitsin Raven (voice)
Erast Garin Professor (voice)
Grigoriy Shpigel Gardener (voice)
Tatyana Barysheva Stepmother (voice)
Yuliya Yulskaya Daughter (voice)
Vladimir Volodin The Wolf (voice)
Aleksei Gribov January (voice)

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