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Vassilisa the Beautiful

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Duration72 min.
LanguageRussian
StatusReleased
Release DateMay 13, 1940

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.

Genres

  • Family
  • Fantasy

Casts

Valentina Sorogozhskaya

Valentina Sorogozhskaya

Vasilisa

Sergei Stolyarov

Sergei Stolyarov

Ivan

Georgi Millyar

Georgi Millyar

Baba Yaga and Father

Lidiya Sukharevskaya

Lidiya Sukharevskaya

Belendryasa

Mariya Barabanova

Mariya Barabanova

Bell-ringer

Lev Potyomkin

Lev Potyomkin

Agafon

Nikita Kondratyev

Nikita Kondratyev

Anton

Irina Zarubina

Irina Zarubina

Malanya

Tatyana Barysheva

Tatyana Barysheva

Malanya's mother

M. Skavronskaya

M. Skavronskaya