The beautiful Vasilisa

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Movie
German title The beautiful Vasilisa
Original title Василиса Прекрасная
(Vasilisa Prekrasnaja)
Country of production Soviet Union
original language Russian
Publishing year 1940
length 70 minutes
Rod
Director Alexander Rou
script Galina Wladytschina
Olga Netschajewa
Vladimir Swiss
production Soyuzdetfilm
music Leonid Polowinkin
camera Ivan Gorchilin
occupation
synchronization

The beautiful Vasilisa (original title: Russian Василиса Прекрасная , Wassilissa Prekrasnaja ) is a Soviet fairy tale film by Alexander Rou from 1940 based on the fairy tale The Frog Princess .

action

A desperate farmer asks his two eldest, useless sons to each shoot an arrow in order to find a bride wherever they go down. Elder brother Anton's arrow hits a snooty nobleman’s daughter, while the middle brother Agafon's arrow gets stuck near a food-addicted merchant’s daughter. The youngest son Ivan wants to do the same as his brothers, but shoots the arrow into a swamp, where he only finds an ugly toad. Once at home, the old farmer tells the future wives to cultivate the land around the hut to see whether they are worthy of a farmer, and goes with his sons to mow fields. The two women had learned nothing and only throw the toad out of the house. Then a pretty girl pulls out of the toad skin and starts doing the women's work. They notice their singing and find the skin. In an argument about it, they tear it in two and throw the remains into the fire.

When the men return home, the girl reveals herself to Vasilissa. She says that she was transformed by a dragon because she refused to marry him. As a punishment, she was supposed to live at the bottom of a lake for three years and the deadline was almost over, but with the two women burning their toad skin, she would now be fetched by the dragon's sister, an old witch. The sky is already darkening, a terrible storm breaks out and Vasilissa disappears. The old man then gave his youngest son some advice: “Far from here, in a dark spruce forest, there are three large, old oaks. Wait until the cuckoo calls cuckoo three times, then you will find a well at the foot of the oaks. At the bottom of this fountain, behind a fence made of oak and a lock that weighs a hundred pounds, lies a miracle sword made of fine steel. Whoever finds the key to the lock can defeat the dragon. "

So the young man goes on a journey to look for the key. On his journey, he meets a blacksmith who tells him that the key is in a golden egg that lies in a duck that sits in a glass chest. This chest, however, would be in the top of a tall pine tree. At the witch's house, the witch Vasilissa suggests that she marry her brother, she would live in a palace and be rich, but Vasilissa refuses again. The warrior has meanwhile arrived in the forest, where he is beaten by the invisible witch, but he holds up. Then she incites him an enchanted bear. He can only barely escape his paws, but eventually defeats him, spares him and thus makes friends with the bears of the forest. In a third stroke, the witch splits the earth in order to prevent the warrior from going further, but Ivan finds a narrow path over which he tries to overcome the raging river below. Arrived in the middle of the transition, the angry old woman brings him to collapse, and under her roaring laughter the young man falls into the abyss. Back at home, she reveals to Vasilissa that her lover is no longer alive, but she still does not consent. Meanwhile, Ivan is able to free himself from the torrent with the help of the bears. He climbs the gorge and comes to the tall pine tree that the bears climb. When they reach the top, they throw the glass chest down for him. The chest breaks and the duck escapes. Then the young man shoots her with his bow and the egg falls to the ground.

With the key in his luggage, he secretly seeks out his Vasilissa, who draws his attention to a forbidden well. When the cuckoo sounds three times, it goes there, climbs down and finds the huge lock on the oak fence. He puts the key in the lock, whereupon it bursts and the gate opens. As he rushes in, he gets caught in a spider's web, the huge owner of which is asking him three riddles that he must solve or his life is forfeited. After answering the questions, he receives the sword and sets out to see the three-headed dragon who wants to marry his Vasilissa. A fight ensues between the adversaries. The fire and water-spewing dragon first hit the warrior badly, but he unexpectedly succeeds in a surprise blow against the monster, whereby the first head is cut off. In the further course of the fight, the hero climbs a rock and pushes down on the dragon from above in order to take the second head. In the meantime, Vasilissa fights the witch and manages to throw her into a large pot of boiling water. The witch wants to escape from the cauldron, but the old woman can be buried in it with a lid. With one last powerful stroke, the warrior finally asserts himself against the fire-storming last dragon head and falls him down. The two remaining lovers then ride home.

background

The beautiful Wassilissa was created in 1939 and was premiered on May 13, 1940 in the Soviet Union . On July 12, 1946, the film was released by the German Sowexportfilm representation in German cinemas. On April 29, 1967, he ran for the first time on DDR 1 on television the GDR and on 24 April 1994, he ran for the first time in West German television on ORB .

synchronization

The German adaptation took place in 1946 by Tobis-Filmkunst, the direction and dialogues were taken over by Volker J. Becker .

actor role German speaker
Georgi Milljar The father Wolf Trutz
Sergei Stolyarov Ivan Peter-Timm Schaufuss
Lev Potyomkin Agafon Walter Bluhm
Nikita Kondratiev Anton Erich Fiedler
Valentina Sorogoschskaya Vasilissa Christine Lembach
Irina Sarubina Malanja Addi Adametz
Lidija Sukharevskaya Beljandryassa Eva-Maria Brock
Georgi Milljar The witch Erna Sellmer

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on publication on kino-teatr.ru ; Retrieved December 26, 2017.
  2. ↑ The beautiful Vasilisa. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 14, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ The beautiful Vasilisa. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on December 26, 2017 .