The Adventures of Buratino (1975)

Original title

Приключения Буратино

Directed by

Leonid Nechayev

Genre

fantasy film, adventure film, musical film, children's film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

2h 12m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 78 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wooden boy named Buratino meets a theater troupe and tries to free them. He must solve the riddle of a golden key given by a turtle.

whimsicalplayfulmusicaladventurousupliftingfolkloriclightheartednostalgic

What happens

The Adventures of Buratino (Russian: Приключения Буратино, romanized: Priklyucheniya Buratino) is a 1975 Soviet two-part children's musical television film produced by Belarusfilm. Directed by Leonid Nechayev, the film was an adaptation of The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino by Alexey Tolstoy in turn an adaptation of the 1883 Italian novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. Inna Vetkina wrote the screenplay for The Adventures of Buratino, as well as several other films directed by Nechayev. The plot of the film follows Buratino (Italian for "puppet"), a boy made of wood, who meets the Karabas Barabas' theatre actors and sets out to free them. In order to do so, he needs to unravel the mystery of a golden key given by the turtle Tortila. Characters such as Arlekin and Piero, who act in the children's theatre are part of commedia dell'arte. The television premiere took place on 1 and 2 January 1976, on Programme One of the Soviet Central Television. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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