Vasilisa the Beautiful

Name: Vasilisa the Beautiful
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Released: 1940-05-13
Duration: 72 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Valentina Sorogozhskaya, Sergey Stolyarov, Georgi Millyar, Lidiya Sukharevskaya, Mariya Barabanova

1940·Family·1h 12m

7.1

★

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.

Directed by Aleksandr Rou

folk tale

fantasy

russian mythology

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Cast

Valentina Sorogozhskaya

Vasilisa

Sergey Stolyarov

Ivan

Georgi Millyar

Baba Yaga and Father

Lidiya Sukharevskaya

Belendryasa

Mariya Barabanova

Bell-ringer

Lev Potyomkin

Agafon

Nikita Kondratyev

Anton

Irina Zarubina

Malanya

Tatyana Barysheva

Malanya's mother

M. Skavronskaya

Olga Chepurova

Crew

Aleksandr Rou

Director

Vladimir Shveytser

Writer

Ivan Gorchilin

Director of Photography

Vladimir Egorov

Production Design

Popular Reviews

2 reviews

Nick

3.0★ · 07/25/25

It takes over half the runtime to get to the hero’s adventure, the preceding half over occupied with silliness and buffoonery. There are several fantastic scenes ranging in effects, including a giant talking spider and three-headed dragon. These big fantasy tropes admittedly feel ahead of the curve for the big screen. Ultimately though the film as a whole is not particularly interesting, especially for a huge chunk of the beginning.

hawkiee

6.0★ · 03/24/25