Twelfth Night (1955 film)
Appearance
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Directed by | Yan Frid |
Written by | Yan Frid William Shakespeare (play) |
Based on | Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare |
Produced by | Yan Frid |
Starring | Klara Luchko Alla Larionova |
Cinematography | Yevgeny Shapiro |
Music by | Aleksey Zhivotov |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Twelfth Night (Russian: Двенадцатая ночь, transliteration Dvenadtsataya noch) is a 1955 Soviet romantic comedy-drama film by Lenfilm based on Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, or What You Will. The script was written by Yan Frid. The film was released in the Soviet Union on 21 November 1955, and in the United States on 3 March 1956.
Cast
[edit]- Klara Luchko as Viola/Sebastian
- Alla Larionova as Olivia
- Vadim Medvedev as Duke Orsino
- Mikhail Yanshin as Sir Toby Belch
- Georgi Vitsin as Sir Andrew Aguecheek
- Vasili Merkuryev as Malvolio
- Bruno Freindlich as Feste
- Sergei Filippov as Fabian
- Anna Lisyanskaya as Maria
- Nina Urgant as maidservant
- Aleksandr Antonov as Sea Captain
- Sergei Lukyanov as Antonio
External links
[edit]- Twelfth Night at IMDb
- (in Russian) Twelfth Night on Lenfilm official site