Vassilisa the Beautiful (1940)
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
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Valentina Sorogozhskaya as Vasilisa |
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Sergey Stolyarov as Ivan |
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Georgi Millyar as Baba Yaga and Father |
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Lidiya Sukharevskaya as Belendryasa |
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Mariya Barabanova as Bell-ringer |
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Lev Potyomkin as Agafon |
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Nikita Kondratyev as Anton |
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Irina Zarubina as Malanya |
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Tatyana Barysheva as Malanya's mother |
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M. Skavronskaya as |
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Olga Chepurova as |
| Writing | Vladimir Shveytser | Writer |
| Directing | Aleksandr Rou | Director |
| Writing | Galina Vladychina | Writer |
| Writing | Olga Nechayeva | Writer |
| Editing | Kseniya Blinova | Editor |
| Sound | Leonid Polovinkin | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Ivan Gorchilin | Director of Photography |
| Production | S. Tomsky | Executive Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Vladimir Yakovlev | Makeup Designer |
| Directing | L. Altsev | Assistant Director |
| Art | Vladimir Egorov | Production Design |
| Art | Sergei Kuznetsov | Production Design |
| Visual Effects | Vladimir Nikitchenko | VFX Artist |
| Sound | Nikolai Ozornov | Sound Director |
| Visual Effects | S. Antipov | VFX Director of Photography |
| Art | Andrey Nikulin | Assistant Production Design |
| Art | A. Petrova | Assistant Production Design |
| Camera | S. Kazarov | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Konstantin Alekseyev | Assistant Camera |
