Vassilisa the Beautiful

Vassilisa the Beautiful 1940 Directed by Aleksandr Rou Василиса Прекрасная

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.

Country Soviet Union

Production Country Soviet Union

Language Russian

Spoken Language Russian

Gneres Family , Fantasy

Production Company Soyuzdetfilm

Release Date 13 May 1940

72 mins