VASILISA THE BEAUTIFUL (1940)

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Vasilisa the Beautiful
Family, Fantasy
May 13, 1940
Russian
1h 12m
Soviet Union
Soyuzdetfilm
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.
Cast & Characters
Valentina Sorogozhskaya
Vasilisa
Sergey Stolyarov
Ivan
Georgi Millyar
Baba Yaga and Father
Lidiya Sukharevskaya
Belendryasa
Mariya Barabanova
Bell-ringer
Lev Potyomkin
Agafon
Nikita Kondratyev
Anton
Irina Zarubina
Malanya
Tatyana Barysheva
Malanya's mother
Crew
Aleksandr Rou
Director
Vladimir Shveytser
Writer
Galina Vladychina
Writer
Olga Nechayeva
Writer
Leonid Polovinkin
Original Music Composer
Ivan Gorchilin
Director of Photography
S. Tomsky
Executive Producer