The Adventures of Buratino

The Adventures of Buratino (1976)

Приключения Буратино

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.

Date of release
1976-01-01
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (79)
Runtime
2h 12m
Genres
Family, Fantasy, Adventure, TV Movie
Director
Leonid Nechayev

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino

The Adventures of Buratino is a 1975 Soviet two-part children's musical television film produced by Belarusfilm.

Production

Music for the film was composed by Alexey Rybnikov and the lyricists included Bulat Okudzhava, and Yuri Entin. There was an early interest by the director Nechayev to work with Yuli Kim (then writing under the last name Mikhailov) as a songwriter. At that time, Yuli Kim was banned from television, so they turned to Okudzhava. Okudzhava wrote music as well as lyrics, though only the music of Rybnikov was used in the film.

Almost all of the children who acted in the film were from Minsk. Dima Iosifov played Buratino. The adults in the cast were famous actors from the rest of the Soviet Union. Nikolai Grinko played Papa Carlo. Vladimir Etush played Karabas Barabas. Rina Zelyonaya played the turtle Tortila. Rolan Bykov played the cat Bazilio.

A number of musical children's films followed, by the makers of The Adventures of Buratino, including About the Little Red Riding Hood (Про Красную Шапочку) in 1977. The television film itself has a cult following in the former Soviet Union.

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