Vasilisa the Beautiful (1940)
Family · Fantasy
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.
Cast
- Valentina Sorogozhskaya as Vasilisa
- Sergey Stolyarov as Ivan
- Georgi Millyar as Baba Yaga and Father
- Lidiya Sukharevskaya as Belendryasa
- Mariya Barabanova as Bell-ringer
- Lev Potyomkin as Agafon
- Nikita Kondratyev as Anton
- Irina Zarubina as Malanya
- Tatyana Barysheva as Malanya's mother
- M. Skavronskaya