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Where to Watch Vassilisa the Beautiful (1940)
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.
FantasyFamily 72 min 6.5/10 from 17 votes
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- Valentina Sorogozhskaya as Vasilisa
- Sergey Stolyarov as Ivan
- Georgi Millyar as Baba Yaga and Father
- Lidiya Sukharevskaya as Belendryasa
- Mariya Barabanova as Bell-ringer