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Genre
  
Animation, Family

Country
  
Japan Soviet Union

Twelve Months (1980 film) movie poster

Director
  
Yugo Serikawa (chief) Kimio Yabuki Tetsuo Imazawa

Release date
  
March 15, 1980 (Japan)

Based on
  
The story by Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak

Writer
  
Samuil Marshak (story), Yasuko Miyazaki, Kimio Yabuki

Directors
  
Kimio Yabuki, Yugo Serikawa, Tetsuo Imazawa

Genres
  
Anime, Animation, Family film

Music director
  
Shunsuke Kikuchi, Vladimir Ivanovich Krivtsov

Cast
  
Shinobu ?take
(Anja),
Ai Kanzaki
(Queen),
Tokuko Sugiyama
(Stepmother),
Mariko Mukai
(Stepmother's daughter),
Ichir? Nagai
(Professor),
Masashi Amenomori
(Prime Minister)

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,
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,
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Twelve Months (世界名作童話 森は生きている, Sekai Meisaku Dōwa Mori wa Ikiteiru, Russian: Двенадцать месяцев, Dvenadtsat mesyatsev) is a 1980 animated feature film directed by Yugo Serikawa, Kimio Yabuki and Tetsuo Imazawa, produced by Toei Animation from Japan in partnership with Soyuzmultfilm from the Soviet Union. It was based on the fairy tale of the same name written by Samuil Marshak. The music was composed by Vladimir Ivanovich Krivtsov (Владимир Иванович Кривцов) and performed by the National Leningrad Philharmonic under the direction of A. S. Dmitriev. Famous manga artist Osamu Tezuka served as co-producer and character designer on the film.

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Twelve Months (1980 film) movie scenes

Plot synopsis

A spoiled, young queen asks for the impossible during a cold winter and requests for a bouquet of Galanthus, a spring wildflower, for New Year's Day in exchange for a reward of gold. One greedy woman desires to collect the bounty and instead of sending her own daughter, readily sends her young stepdaughter, Anja, to look for the white-blossomed flowers in the deep forest during a night snowstorm despite knowing the task will be impossible. Despite refusing, Anja is cast into the blizzard by her stepmother and in the barren forest, falls unconscious from the freezing cold. Later, she is awoken and is drawn to a light in the distance from a mysterious bonfire, surrounded by spirits whom reveal themselves as the Twelve Months. Learning of her task, the twelve spirits take pity on Anja. They use their powers to temporarily bring spring to allow the flowers to grow and be collected but requests no one is to know how and where she obtained the Galanthus. A grateful Anja returns home with the requested flowers and the bouquet is presented to the Queen by her stepmother and stepsister. However, the unsatisfied queen wishes to see where the flowers grow for herself.

Original cast

  • Anja - Shinobu Otake/Svetlana Stepchenko (Russian)/Corinne Orr (English).
  • Queen - Ai Kanzaki/Irina Cartashyova (Russian).
  • Stepmother - Tokuko Sugiyama/Anatoliy Barantsev (Russian).
  • Stepmother's daughter - Mariko Mukai/Klara Rumyanova (Russian).
  • Professor - Ichirō Nagai/Igor Taradaykin (Russian).
  • Prime Minister - Masashi Amenomori.
  • Officer - Daisuke Ryu/Earl Hammond (English).
  • January - Kiyoshi Kobayashi/Boris Novicov (Russian).
  • April - Katsuji Mori/Alexander Vigdorov (Russian).
  • Soldier - Masato Yamanouchi.
  • Young soldier - Koji Yakusho.
  • Additional voice - Hidekatsu Shibata.
  • February - Vsevolod Abdulov (Russian).
  • Marth - Sergei Yursky (Russian).
  • May - Yuriy Menshagin (Russian).
  • June - Mikhail Kononov (Russian).
  • July - Alexander Voevodin (Russian).
  • August - Evgeniy Revenko (Russian).
  • September - Yuriy Malyarov (Russian).
  • October - Dmitriy Polonskiy (Russian).
  • November - Igor Yasulovich (Russian).
  • December - Yuriy Sarantsev (Russian).
  • References

    Twelve Months (1980 film) Wikipedia
    Twelve Months (1980 film) IMDb Twelve Months (1980 film) themoviedb.org