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Vassilisa the Beautiful (1940) [N/A]

Release Date:
May 13, 1940

Original Title:
Василиса Прекрасная

Alternate Titles:
Beautiful Vasilisa
Die Schöne Wasilissa
Vasilisa La Hermosa
Vasilisa Prekrasna
Vasilisa Prekrasnaya
Vasilisa the Beautiful
Vasilissa Den Sköna
Vassilissa La Bella
Vassilissa Très Belle
Vassilissa, A Bela
Vassilissa, a Bela
Wasilisa De Schone
Василиса Прекрасная

Genres:
Family | Fantasy

Production Companies:
Soyuzdetfilm

Production Countries:
Soviet Union

Ratings / Certifications:
AT: 6  DE: 6  RU: 6+ 

Runtime: 72

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Production

Art Direction:
S. Kuznetsov

Cinematography:
Ivan Gorchilin

Compositor:
Leonid Polovinkin

Director:
Aleksandr Rou

Editor:
Kseniya Blinova

Producer:
S. Tomsky

Writer:
Vladimir Shvejtser
Galina Vladychina
Olga Nechayeva

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