Vassilisa the Beautiful

Vassilisa the Beautiful

72 mins | Family, Fantasy | May 13, 1940

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.

Vassilisa the Beautiful

72 mins | Family, Fantasy | May 13, 1940

Vassilisa the Beautiful
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.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers Soyuzdetfilm
Original title Василиса Прекрасная
Directors Aleksandr Rou
Writers Vladimir Shvejtser

Cast

Georgi Millyar

as Baba Yaga and Father

Lidiya Sukharevskaya

as Belendryasa

Mariya Barabanova

as Bell-ringer

Lev Potyomkin

as Agafon

Irina Zarubina

as Malanya

Tatyana Barysheva

as Malanya's mother