Vassilisa the Beautiful (1940)

Poster for Vassilisa the Beautiful

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.

Cast & Crew

Director
Aleksandr Rou
  • Profile picture of Valentina Sorogozhskaya
    Vasilisa Valentina Sorogozhskaya
  • Profile picture of Sergei Stolyarov
    Ivan Sergei Stolyarov
  • Profile picture of Georgi Millyar
    Baba Yaga and Father Georgi Millyar
  • Profile picture of Lidiya Sukharevskaya
    Belendryasa Lidiya Sukharevskaya
  • Profile picture of Mariya Barabanova
    Bell-ringer Mariya Barabanova
  • Profile picture of Lev Potyomkin
    Agafon Lev Potyomkin
  • Profile picture of Nikita Kondratyev
    Anton Nikita Kondratyev
  • Profile picture of Irina Zarubina
    Malanya Irina Zarubina

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