Twelfth Night (1955 film)

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Dvenadtsataya noch
Written by	William Shakespeare, Yan Frid
Starring	Klara Luchko Georgi Vitsin
Release date(s)	1955 (USA: 1956)
Running time	90 min
Country	USSR
Language	Russian
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Twelfth Night (Russian: Двенадцатая ночь, transliteration Dvenadtsataya noch) is a 1955 Soviet comedy film by Lenfilm based on Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, or What You Will. Script by Yan Frid. USA release date: March 3, 1956.

[edit] 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 Frejndlikh as Feste
• Sergei Filippov as Fabian
• Anna Lisyanskaya as Maria
• Nina Urgant
• Aleksandr Antonov as Sea Captain
• Sergei Lukyanov as Antonio

[edit] External links

• Twelfth Night (1955 film) at the Internet Movie Database
• (Russian) Twelfth Night on Lenfilm official site