''The Adventures of Buratino'' (russian: Приключения Буратино, Priklyucheniya Buratino, italic=yes) is a 1975 Live-action Soviet-Belarusian two-part Children's musical television film produced by

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. Directed by Leonid Nechayev, the film was an

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of ''

The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino Buratino (Russian: Буратино) is the main character of Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's 1936 book ''The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino'', which is based on the 1883 Italian novel ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' by Carlo Collo ...

'' by Alexey Tolstoy in turn an adaptation of the 1883 Italian

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'' The Adventures of Pinocchio'' by Carlo Collodi. Inna Vetkina wrote the

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for ''The Adventures of Buratino'', as well as several other films directed by Nechayev. The plot of the film follows Buratino ( Italian for "

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"), 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

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and Pierrot, who act in the children's theatre are part of

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for the film was composed by Alexey Rybnikov and the

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included Bulat Okudzhava, and Yuri Entin. There was an early interest by the director Nechayev to work with

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(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

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, though only the music of Rybnikov was used in the film. The songs that Okudzhava wrote were serious and philosophical, so Nechayev also incorporated lyrics by Yuri Entin and omitted some of Okudzhava's. Марта Лаховец
''Буратино нашли на катке, а Мальвину - в поезде.''

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. №26 (393) 25 июня - 1 июля 2010. 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.

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played Papa Carlo.

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played Karabas Barabas.

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played the turtle Tortila. Rolan Bykov played the cat Bazilio.

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''Priklyucheniya Buratino''
Accessed 9 September 2010. 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 an

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in the former

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Cast

Dima Iosifov - Buratino, the

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and the story's version of Pinocchio.

- Papa Carlo, the story's version of Geppetto.
Yuriy Katin-Yartsev - Dzhuzeppe-Sizy Nos, the story's version of Mastro Antonio

- Karabas-Barabas, the story's

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character.
Rolan Bykov - Basilio the Cat, a version of the Cat.
Elena Sanaeva - Alice the Fox, a version of the

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- Tortila, a wise, old turtle who helps Buratino.
Tatyana Protsenko - Malvina
Vladimir Basov - Duremar
Baadur Tsuladze - Eating-house owner
Roman Stolkarts - Piero
Thomas Augustinas - Artemon
Grigori Svetlorusov - Arlekin

References

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Приключения Буратино
{{DEFAULTSORT:Adventures of Buratino (1976 film) 1975 films 1970s television films Belarusian musical films 1970s musical fantasy films 1970s children's fantasy films Soviet musical fantasy films Soviet children's fantasy films Russian musical fantasy films Russian children's fantasy films Belarusfilm films Soviet-era Belarusian films Pinocchio films Soviet television films Musical television films Films directed by Leonid Nechayev Live-action films