Vassilisa the Beautiful (1940)

  • NR
  • 07/07/1940 (US)
  • Family, Fantasy
  • 1h 12m

Overview

Based on a Russian folk tale, Vasilisa Prekrasnaya (Vasilisa the Beautiful) is about a father whose three sons go out to finds themselves brides. Two of the boys come home with perfectly normal girls, but the youngest brother, Ivanushka, brings home a frog from the marshes. His father finds this most curious, but what he does not know was that the frog was actually a beautiful girl named Vasilisa who was cursed by a magical serpent whom she refused to marry. Now Ivanushka must overcome tremendous obstacles to restore Vasilisa to her true form and free her from the serpent's spell.

Vladimir Shvejtser

Writer

Aleksandr Rou

Director

Cast

Valentina Sorogozhskaya's headshot

Valentina Sorogozhskaya

Vasilisa
Sergei Stolyarov's headshot

Sergei Stolyarov

Ivan
Georgi Millyar's headshot

Georgi Millyar

Baba Yaga and Father
Lidiya Sukharevskaya's headshot

Lidiya Sukharevskaya

Belendryasa
Mariya Barabanova's headshot

Mariya Barabanova

Bell-ringer
Lev Potyomkin's headshot

Lev Potyomkin

Agafon
Nikita Kondratyev's headshot

Nikita Kondratyev

Anton
Irina Zarubina's headshot

Irina Zarubina

Malanya

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