

Vassilisa the Beautiful
Overview
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.
Movie Details
Languages
Russian
Studio
Soyuzdetfilm
Key Crew

Vladimir Shveytser
Writer

Aleksandr Rou
Director
Cast

Valentina Sorogozhskaya
Vasilisa

Sergei 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

M. Skavronskaya