Twelfth Night
- Studio
- Christmas Films, Soyuzmultfilm, Sianel 4 Cymru (S4C), British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC Wales), HIT Entertainment PLC, Home Box Office (HBO), Fujisankei, Dave Edwards Studio Cardiff
- Animation studio
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Distributor
- British Broadcasting Corporation
Synopsis
Dour Malvolio, beautiful Countess Olivia, disguised Viola and all the actors of this golden comedy are played by sophisticated puppets in this charming rendition. Achieving an exceptional fluency of movement for stop-frame animation, the film is utterly absorbing and remarkably convincing.
Characters
Viola, Duke Orsino, Olivia, Malvolio, Toby Belch, Sir Andrew, Maria, Feste, Sebastian
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Maria Muat
Producing
- Producer
- Dave Edwards
- Executive Producers
- Elizabeth Babakhina, Christopher Grace
- Producer (Christmas Films)
- Renat Zinnurov
- Associate Producer (HIT Entertainment)
- Peter Orton
- Associate Producer (BBC)
- Theresa Plummer-Andrews
- Associate Producer (Soyuzmultfilms)
- Stanislav Roshkov
Writing
- Writer
- Leon Garfield (Screenplay)
- Based On The Original Plays By
- William Shakespeare
Voices
- Voice
- Rosemary Leach (Narrator), Fiona Shaw (Viola), Roger Allam (Duke Orsino), Suzanne Burden (Olivia), Gerald James (Malvolio), William Rushton (Toby Belch), Stephen Tompkinson (Sir Andrew), Alice Arnold (Maria), Stefan Bednarczyk (Feste), Hugh Grant (Sebastian)
Music
- Music
- Yuri Novikov
Art Department
- Production Design
- Natalia Demidova, Peter Kotov
- Lighting Designer
- Vladimir Gogelgants
Camera
- Camera Operator
- Vadim Prudnikov
Editing
- Editor
- Nadezhda Treschyova
- Supervising Editor
- Elena Mikhailova
- Post-Production Editor
- Terry Brown
Sound
- Sound Engineer
- Martin Gifford
Music Department
- Music Editor
- Nina Savicheva
- Conductor
- Algirdas Paulavitchus
Casting
- Music Recording Directors
- Rauf Atamalibekov, Vyacheslav Bednov, Sergei Karpov, Gennadi Papin
Production Management
- Production Managers
- Alexander Sokolov, Philip Watkins
- Production Coordinators
- Huw Walters, Igor Markozyan
- Video Coordinator
- Marley Bryan
- Production Secretary
- Trina Flower
- Legal Coordinator
- Sara Griffiths
- Production Assistants
- Vera Lavrik, Anna Roberts, Alina Vlasova
- Production Accountant
- Margaret Stanley
Crew
- Artist
- Lyubov Gorelova
- Dubbing Engineer
- Billy Mahoney
- Stunts
- Marc Cass
- Interpreters
- Inna Basharimova, Natalia Filatova, Natalia Stebletzova, Maria Torchinskaya, Julia Yeryomina
- Academic Advisor
- Dr. Rex Gibson
- Educational Advisor
- Michael Marland
- Literary Advisor
- Professor Stanley Wells
- Laboratories
- Mosfilm, Moscow, United Kingdom
Companies and other credits
- Academic Coordinator: Roy Kendall
- Laboratories: Studio Film Laboratories Ltd
- Video Facilities: SVC Television (London)
- Completion Guarantee: Film Finances Limited
Production notes
Stop-motion puppet animation.