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Vassilisa the Beautiful (1940)

Vassilisa the Beautiful (1940)

Fantasy Family
Release Date: 1940, May 13
Directors: Aleksandr Rou
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Soyuzdetfilm
Cast: Sergey Stolyarov, Georgi Millyar, Mariya Barabanova, Lidiya Sukharevskaya, Nikita Kondratyev, Lev Potyomkin, Tatyana Barysheva, Irina Zarubina, Valentina Sorogozhskaya

Overview:

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.