The Adventures of Buratino (1975 film)

The Adventures of Buratino
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Приключения Буратино
Based onThe Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino
Written byInna Vetkina
Story byAlexei Tolstoy
Directed byLeonid Nechayev
StarringDmitri Iosifov
Nikolai Grinko
Yuri Katin-Yartsev
Tatyana Protsenko
Roman Stolkarts
Thomas Augustinas
Grigori Svetlorusov
Rina Zelyonaya
Vladimir Etush
Rolan Bykov
Elena Sanayeva
Vladimir Basov
Baadur Tsuladze
Valentin Bukin
Music byAlexey Rybnikov
Country of originSoviet Union
Original languageRussian
Production
ProducerVladimir Studennikov
CinematographyYuri Elkhov
EditorVera Kolyadenko
Running time132 minutes (2 parts)
Production companyBelarusfilm
Original release
Release1975 (1975)

The Adventures of Buratino (Russian: Приключения Буратино, romanized: Priklyucheniya Buratino) is a 1975 Live-action 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 children of Karabas Barabas' theatre 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.