The Adventures of Buratino

Name: The Adventures of Buratino
Cast: Dmitriy Iosifov, Tatyana Protsenko, Mykola Hrynko, Vladimir Etush, Vladimir Basov

TV series
1975–1976
1 season

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A wooden boy Buratino tries to find his place in life. He befriends toys from a toy theater owned by evil Karabas-Barabas, gets tricked by Alice the Fox and Basilio the Cat and finally discovers the mystery of a golden key given to him by kind Tortila the Tortoise

Based on the book The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino by Aleksey Tolstoy (1936)
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About the show

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.

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