1956 · animation · fantasy · family
The Twelve Months
Directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano55m1956
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.
Our read: The Twelve Months (1956) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive animation · fantasy · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle animation / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- redemptive
- tender
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