The Twelve Months (Russian: Двенадцать месяцев, romanized: Dvenadtsat mesyatsev) is a 1973 Soviet Lenfilm fantasy film directed by Anatoliy Granik based on the play by Samuil Marshak adapted from the fairy tale with the same name.

Meanwhile, the country’s queen—a selfish teenage girl who also lost her parents as a child—comes up with a whimsical demand: a basket of fresh snowdrops as a New Year’s gift.

She promises a basket of gold to whoever fulfills this request, despite her elderly professor’s protests about the impossibility of finding snowdrops in winter.

The stepmother and stepsister, enticed by the reward, care little about the seasonality of the flowers and decide to send the girl on the impossible task.

While the girl sleeps, her envious stepsister steals the magical ring and goes with her mother to the royal palace to claim the reward.

However, the snowdrops quickly disappear, replaced by berries, and the seasons begin to shift rapidly—summer turns to autumn, and winter returns.

The Months reappear and rescue the girl, returning her ring and providing her with a dowry of fine clothes and a sleigh drawn by white horses.