It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow and is based on the fairy-tale play of the same name by Samuil Marshak.

The animated film plot quite precisely reflects story events, thus the particular emphasis is placed on ridiculing the shortcomings of an absolute monarchy.

The film's sound and image were restored in by Krupnyy Plan, who released it on video and DVD in Russia in 2005.

When the lesson turns to botany, she wishes that April will arrive tomorrow, and bring with it the spring flowers, Snowdrops.

The freezing stepdaughter comes to a glade in which a fire burns, and round it the twelve brother Months are heated.

If there is trouble, she can throw the ringlet and speak the magic words — and all twelve brother months will come to her rescue.

The queen, having been drenched under the strongest autumn heavy rain, freezes suddenly as Winter arrives.

An old man in a white fur coat (brother month January) comes out of the wood and suggests that everyone think of one desire.

The first home release of The Twelve Months in the 1980s, by the studio Videoprogrammoy Goskino USSR (Видеопрограммой Госкино СССР).

The Twelve Months was first released on DVD in 1999 by the company Films by Jove, with Spanish, French and English subtitles.