Vasilisa the Beautiful

Vasilisa the Beautiful (1940)

Василиса Прекрасная

Russian folk tale 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.

Date of release
1940-05-13
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (18)
Runtime
1h 12m
Genres
Family, Fantasy
Director
Aleksandr Rou

Casting

Interesting facts

Vasilisa the Beautiful is a 1940 Soviet children's fantasy film produced by Soyuzdetfilm and directed by Alexander Rou. It was based on a traditional Russian fairy tale The Frog Tsarevna , rather than the fairy tale of the same name.

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