Василиса Прекрасная (1940)

Title: Vassilisa the Beautiful

Original Title: Василиса Прекрасная

Release Date: 1940-05-13

Status: Released

Rating: 6.5/10 (from 16 votes)

Language: RU

Genres: Family, Fantasy

Production Companies: Soyuzdetfilm

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.