Vasilisa the Beautiful (1940)

6.6/10 72 min Family Fantasy

Overview

Russian folk tale 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.

Cast

Valentina Sorogozhskaya

Vasilisa

Sergey Stolyarov

Ivan

Georgi Millyar

Baba Yaga and Father

Lidiya Sukharevskaya

Belendryasa

Mariya Barabanova

Bell-ringer

Lev Potyomkin

Agafon

Nikita Kondratyev

Anton

Irina Zarubina

Malanya

Tatyana Barysheva

Malanya's mother

M. Skavronskaya

Olga Chepurova

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