Vassilisa the Beautiful (1940)

Name: Vassilisa the Beautiful
Genre: Fantasy, Family
Released: 1940-07-07
Duration: 1 hr 12 min
Rating: 65
Cast: Valentina Sorogozhskaya, Serhii Stoliarov, Georgi Millyar, Lidiya Sukharevskaya, Mariya Barabanova

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StarringValentina SorogozhskayaSerhii StoliarovGeorgi Millyar

DirectorAleksandr Rou

WritersVladimir Shveytser

NR 1 hr 12 minJul 7th, 1940Fantasy, Family

Plot

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.

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