Vasilisa the Beautiful
(1940)
★ 6.6 IMDb · 18 votes
Year: 1940
Runtime: 74 мин
Country: Soviet Union
Director: Александр Роу
Cast: Валентина Сорогожская, Сергей Столяров, Георгий Милляр, Лидия Сухаревская, Мария Барабанова, Лев Потёмкин, Никита Кондратьев, Ирина Зарубина, Татьяна Барышева, М. Скавронская
Plot
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.