The Adventures of Buratino (1975 film)
| The Adventures of Buratino | |
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| Приключения Буратино | |
| Based on | The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino |
| Written by | Inna Vetkina |
| Story by | Alexei Tolstoy |
| Directed by | Leonid Nechayev |
| Starring | Dmitri 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 by | Alexey Rybnikov |
| Country of origin | Soviet Union |
| Original language | Russian |
| Production | |
| Producer | Vladimir Studennikov |
| Cinematography | Yuri Elkhov |
| Editor | Vera Kolyadenko |
| Running time | 132 minutes (2 parts) |
| Production company | Belarusfilm |
| Original release | |
| Release | 1975 |
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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 January 1 and 2, 1976, on Programme One of the Soviet Central Television.