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.

Genre: Family, Fantasy

Director: Aleksandr Rou

Actors: Georgiy Millyar, Sergey Stolyarov, Lev Potyomkin, Nikita Kondratyev, Valentina Sorogozhskaya, Irina Zarubina, Lidiya Sukharevskaya, Tatyana Barysheva, Mariya Barabanova, M. Skavronskaya

Release date: 1940-05-13

Country of origin: SU

Length: 1h 12m

Ratings:

• 7.2/10