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.
Title | Vassilisa the Beautiful |
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Year | 1940 |
Genre | Family, Fantasy |
Country | Soviet Union |
Studio | Soyuzdetfilm |
Cast | Valentina Sorogozhskaya, Sergei Stolyarov, Georgi Millyar, Lidiya Sukharevskaya, Mariya Barabanova, Lev Potyomkin |
Crew | Vladimir Shvejtser (Writer), Aleksandr Rou (Director) |
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Release | May 13, 1940 |
Runtime | 72 minutes |
Quality | HD |
IMDb | 6.50 / 10 by 16 users |