Vasilisa the Beautiful

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.

Director

Aleksandr Rou

Writers

Vladimir Shveytser, Galina Vladychina, Olga Nechayeva

Released

May 13, 1940

Language

Russian