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Vassilisa the Beautiful (1940)

★ 6.5/10 72 min Family, Fantasy Soviet Union Russian
Director: Aleksandr Rou
Streaming: Not available

Description

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.

Top 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

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