Dvenadtsataya noch
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
Production company	Lenfilm
Release date	21 November 1955 (1955-11-21) (Soviet Union)
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

• 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

• Twelfth Night at IMDb
• (in Russian) Twelfth Night on Lenfilm official site

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