The Twelve Months (1956 film)

The twelve months is a Soviet animated film directed by Ivan Ivanov - Vano from the year 1956.

Action

A young girl was sent by your stepmother into the forest to fetch wood. Way, she meets a soldier of the Queen, who tells her about one of his ancestors, as that was met once every twelve months in the New Year's Eve. He helps her collect twigs and reports on the Queen, the fatherless, and the same age as the girl is. In gratitude for the help the girl shows the soldiers the most beautiful pine of the forest, which he should hit for the Queen.

The wayward queen is taught by a professor and terrorized their environment. On a whim, she asks that you you still should bring snowdrops New Year's Eve. Anyone who can bring a basket of snowdrops, it promises to fill the basket with gold. The stepmother and stepsister of the girl hoping for the gold and send the girl, half-frozen just after it comes back with the wood from the forest, back to collecting snowdrops in the forest. Under heavy snowstorm, they discovered a group of men around a campfire, which might prove the twelve months. They are initially amused that she is looking at the wrong season snowdrops, but touched by her story the flower within the twelve months snowdrops, so that the girl can collect their flowers. In parting, they give her with a ring, with which they can call the twelve months following requirements to help when they otherwise keeps the secret of her whereabouts for themselves.

For the basket of snowdrops the stepmother and her daughter get the units awarded gold. However, the queen wants the spot in the woods to see where the snowdrops grow. Send the girl back into the woods, ostensibly to fetch more snowdrops. The stepsister for marking the path behind. When the Queen meets the girl in the forest, this refuses to tell her the secret to the area where the snowdrops. It unravels a dispute over the ring of twelve months. The Queen throws the ring on a frozen lake and the girl calls the twelve months.

With a snowstorm a round of directly consecutive seasons, fascinated by the Queen and her entourage and shocked begins. The oldest of the Twelve Months equips the girl with splendid clothing, sledges and Troika. Together you go - the girl, the purified in their arrogance Queen, her teacher and the soldier - from the forest back.

Production

For the image composition were responsible Alexander Belyakov, Konstantin Karpov and Anatoly Kurizyn.

Synchronization

The dialogues of the DEFA synchronization wrote Margot game bird, the government took over Thomas Ruttmann. The cut version made ​​Hildegard Zander, for the sound were Charlotte nickel and Fritz Klenke responsible. The voice actors are Else Wolz, Elsa Grube- Deister, Werner Schulz- Wittan, Günter Ballier, Theo Mack, Erica Stocking and Heidi pan.

Criticism

The filmdienst holds the film for a " loveable Russian animated tale about the immutable course of nature and the impotence of the human will. ".