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Vassilisa the Beautiful (1940)

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.

Release: 1940-05-13
Runtime: 72 min
Rating: 6.5 / 10
Cast
Valentina Sorogozhskaya
Valentina Sorogozhskaya
Vasilisa
Serhii Stoliarov
Serhii Stoliarov
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
Tetiana Barysheva
Tetiana Barysheva
Malanya's mother
M. Skavronskaya
M. Skavronskaya