Twelve Months (1980 film)

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Twelve Months
Theatrical poster
Directed by	Kimio Yabuki
Written by	Kimio Yabuki Tomoe Takashi
Based on	The Twelve Months by Samuil Marshak
Produced by	Kenji Yokoyama
Cinematography	Masao Shimizu Tamio Hosoda
Edited by	Kōichi Katagiri Yutaka Chikura
Music by	Vladimir Ivanovich Krivtsov
Production companies	Toei Animation Soyuzmultfilm
Distributed by	Toei Company
Release date	March 15, 1980 (1980-03-15) (Japan)
Running time	65 minutes
Countries	Japan Soviet Union
Language	Japanese / Russian / English

Twelve Months (世界名作童話 森は生きている, Sekai Meisaku Dōwa: Mori wa Ikiteiru, lit. 'World Masterpiece Fairy Tales: The Forest That Lives'; Russian: Двенадцать месяцев, romanized: Dvenadcať mesjacev) is a 1980 animated feature film directed by Kimio Yabuki and produced by Toei Animation from Japan in partnership with Soyuzmultfilm from the Soviet Union. It was based on the 1943 play written by Samuil Marshak which itself was based on the medieval fairy tale of the same name. The music was composed by Vladimir Ivanovich Krivtsov and performed by the National Leningrad Philharmonic under the direction of A. S. Dmitriev.

Preceded by The Wild Swans (1977) and Thumbelina (1978), and followed by Swan Lake (1981) and Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (1982), it represents the third episode in Toei's World Masterpiece Fairy Tales film series.