Cinema
The Adventures of Buratino
Приключения Буратино
Leonid Nechayev · 1976
Synopsis
The carpenter Giuseppe finds a log that talks and gives it to his friend Carlo, a barrel-organ player, who carves a puppet from it: Buratino. Carlo sells his jacket to buy him a primer, which the puppet sells in order to get into the puppet theatre of Karabas-Barabas. The director, at first furious, gives him five gold coins; the fox Alice and the cat Basilio then lure him to the Land of Fools. Taken in by Malvina, the girl with blue hair, he receives from the tortoise Tortila a golden key whose secret Karabas covets.
Context
Inna Vetkina had drawn from Alexei Tolstoy's tale an animated-cartoon script in five episodes for Belarusfilm; Leonid Nechayev, a director of fiction films, made from it a sung film in two parts, played by children, most of them from Minsk. Alexei Rybnikov composed the music, to words by Bulat Okudzhava and Yuri Entin, and Yuri Elkhov operated the camera; the exteriors were shot in Crimea, in great heat. The studio, at first reluctant, accepted the film after a screening in Moscow. Central Television broadcast it on 1 and 2 January 1976.
Who it is for
A musical television film in two parts, of a little over two hours, in Russian, for children and those who accompany them.
Prizes and reception
An immediate success on its broadcast, the film retains a loyal audience in the countries of the former Soviet Union; its author regarded it as the best of his films.
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