Vasilisa the Beautiful
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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.
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Cast
12 people
Valentina Sorogozhskaya
Vasilisa
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Sergei Stolyarov
Ivan
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Ivan
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Aleksandr Rou Director · Vladimir Shveytser Writer Galina Vladychina Writer
United States release July 7, 1940 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Original title Василиса Прекрасная
Production
Soyuzdetfilm
Production
Russia · Russia
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Василиса Прекрасная
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · May 13, 1940
Theatrical
United States · July 7, 1940
Theatrical
Austria
September 1, 1946 · Theatrical
Germany
September 19, 2017 · Physical
XC
April 11, 1947 · Theatrical
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