''Twelfth Night'' (russian: Двенадцатая ночь,

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''Dvenadtsataya noch'') is a 1955

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by Lenfilm based on

Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...

'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

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 * Alla Larionova as Olivia *

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 *

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 * 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

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