

Vasilisa the Beautiful
1940-05-13 · 72 min · ★ 6.6
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.
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- Directors
- Aleksandr Rou
- Production companies
- Soyuzdetfilm
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Status
- Released
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Valentina SorogozhskayaVasilisa
Sergey StolyarovIvan
Georgi MillyarBaba Yaga and Father
Lidiya SukharevskayaBelendryasa
Mariya BarabanovaBell-ringer
Lev PotyomkinAgafon
Nikita KondratyevAnton
Irina ZarubinaMalanya
Tatyana BaryshevaMalanya's mother
M. Skavronskaya
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