''Twelfth Night'' (russian: Двенадцатая ночь,
transliteration
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''Dvenadtsataya noch'') is a 1955
Soviet
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comedy film
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by
Lenfilm based on
Shakespeare
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's play ''
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
''Twelfth Night'', or ''What You Will'' is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Vio ...
''. The script was written by
Yan Frid
Yan Borisovich Frid (russian: Ян Борисович Фрид; 1908–2003) was a Soviet screenwriter and film director.
Life and career
Yan Borisovich Frid was born on May 31 in 1908 in Krasnoyarsk.
In 1932 he graduated from the directing dep ...
. The film was released in the Soviet Union on 21 November 1955, and in the United States on 3 March 1956.
Cast
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Klara Luchko
Klara Stepanivna Luchko ( uk, Клара Степанівна Лучко; russian: Кла́ра Степа́новна Лучко́; 1 July 1925 – 26 March 2005) was a Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian actress known for her roles in the Soviet cin ...
as Viola/Sebastian
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Alla Larionova as Olivia
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Vadim Medvedev
Vadim (Cyrillic: Вадим) is a Russian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Slovene masculine given name derived either from the Persian ''badian'' (anise or aniseed), or from the Ruthenian word ''volod'' (russian: волод), meaning ''to rule'' or ''vaditi ...
as Duke Orsino
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Mikhail Yanshin
Mikhail Mikhailovich Yanshin (russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Я́ншин) (20 October 1902 – 17 July 1976) was a Soviet stage and film actor.
Biography
Yanshin was born in the city of Yukhnov, located in the present-day Kalug ...
as Sir Toby Belch
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Georgi Vitsin as Sir Andrew Aguecheek
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Vasili Merkuryev as Malvolio
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Bruno Freindlich as Feste
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Sergei Filippov as Fabian
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Anna Lisyanskaya as Maria
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Nina Urgant as maidservant
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Aleksandr Antonov as Sea Captain
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Sergei Lukyanov as Antonio
External links
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Twelfth Nighton
Lenfilm official site
1955 films
Lenfilm films
Films based on Twelfth Night
1955 comedy films
Soviet comedy films
Russian comedy films
1950s Russian-language films
Films directed by Yan Frid
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