Vasilisa the Beautiful (1940)

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.

Released

1940-05-13

Genres

Family, Fantasy

Runtime

72 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Aleksandr Rou

TMDB rating

6.6/10 from 18 votes