The Twelve Months (1973)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The twelve months |
| Original title | Двенадцать месяцев (Dwenadzat mesjazew) |
| Country of production | Soviet Union |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 138 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Anatoly Granik |
| script | Anatoli Granik Samuil Marshak |
| production | Mikhail Shcheglow |
| music |
Nadezhda Simonjan Natalja Levitina |
| camera | Rostislav Davydov |
| cut | Mikhail Shcheglow |
| occupation | |
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The Twelve Months ( Russian Двенадцать месяцев Dwenadzat mesjazew ) is a Soviet fairy tale film by the director Anatoly Granik from 1973, which was produced by the Leningrad film studio Lenfilm .
action
The capricious and arrogant queen orders her subordinates to bring her snowdrops in December. Whoever fulfills this wish will be very richly rewarded. A vicious stepmother then sends her daughter on a hunt to collect the advertised reward. Shortly before the New Year, the young girl strolls unsuccessfully through the Russian forests in the freezing cold to look for the snowdrops. In the forest the girl discovers strange things during her search, among other things she encounters talking animals and an older soldier who predicts that miracles will happen that day. He says that one of his ancestors was fortunate enough to meet the New Year for twelve months in person, which then granted him a wish. After the girl wandered around for a long time and after a blizzard, the girl suddenly saw a bright glow in a clearing. All twelve months of the year sit around a campfire and ask the sad girl what is bothering her. The month of April then persuades the other months to help her to get to the snowdrop and swaps its place with January, whereupon a spot with snowdrops and other spring flowers appears in the forest. Furthermore, the months give her a ring with which she can call them for help if in need. After handing it over to a basket of snowdrops, the stepmother and queen are initially delighted. However, before she receives the promised outstanding reward, the queen orders to be taken to the location. However, the girl has promised the twelve months to keep quiet about everything that has happened.
background
In 1956, the Soviet cartoon of the same name, The Twelve Months , was previously produced. Both films are based on the story of the Russian writer Samuil Jakowlewitsch Marschak The Twelve Months . The film had its Soviet premiere on January 1, 1973. It was first shown on GDR television on December 6, 1975.
Web links
- Twelve months in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The twelve months on kino-teatr.ru (Russian)
- The twelve months on kinomusorka.ru
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. Die Twelve Months on pp. 187–191 in 77 Fairy Tale Films - A Guide for Young and Old (ed.) Eberhard Berger, Joachim Giera u. a. Henschel Verlag GmbH; Berlin 1990; ISBN 3362004474
- ↑ The Twelve Months. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The 12 months. Educational material to accompany the film. (PDF; 368 KB) (No longer available online.) Sächsischer Kinder- und Jugendfilmdienst eV, November 4, 2009, archived from the original on June 17, 2012 ; Retrieved December 22, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Information on the publication on kino-teatr.ru , accessed on December 14, 2017
- ↑ Information on the publication on fernsehenderddr.de , accessed on December 15, 2017
