The Adventures of Buratino (1959 film)

The Adventures of Buratino or The All-New Adventures of Pinocchio (Russian: Приключе́ния Бурати́но; tr.:Priklyucheniya Buratino) is a 1959 Soviet traditionally animated feature film directed by the "patriarch of Russian animation", Ivan Ivanov-Vano, along with Dmitriy Babichenko and Mikhail Botov. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow and is based on Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy’s The Golden Key, or Adventures of Buratino.

The Adventures of Buratino
Krupnyy Plan DVD cover
Directed by	Dmitriy Babichenko Ivan Ivanov-Vano Mikhail Botov
Produced by	Dmitriy Babichenko Ivan Ivanov-Vano
Written by	Nikolai Erdman Lyudmila Tolstaya
Starring	Georgy Vitsin Yelena Ponsova T. Dmitrieva Aleksandr Baranov N. Gulyayeva Margarita Korabelnikova Yevgeny Vesnik V. Lepko
Music by	Anatoliy Lepin
Edited by	N. Mayorova
Release date	December 31, 1959 (USSR)
Running time	67 minutes
Country	USSR
Language	Russian

Plot

The film tells about the adventures of a small wooden puppet whose youngest viewers are familiar with the book where Carlo Collodi tells the adventures of Pinocchio. In fact, Burattino is a puppet in the first version of the novel.

DVD releases

• Films by Jove, May 18, 1999 (R1?, NTSC) - version restored by Films by Jove in the 1990s. Titled Stories from My Childhood, Vol. 2. It contains English, French and Spanish soundtracks, no subtitles. Included films: Ivan and His Magic Pony (aka. The Humpbacked Horse), Pinocchio and the Golden Key (aka. The Adventures of Buratino).
• Krupnyy Plan, 2002 (R5, PAL) - version restored by Krupnyy Plan ("full restoration of image and sound"). It contains original Russian soundtrack, no subtitles. Included film: The Adventures of Buratino. Other features: Before and after restoration, photo album, director filmographies.
• Films by Jove, 2006 (R0?, NTSC) - version restored by Films by Jove in the 1990s. It contains Russian soundtrack with English subtitles. Included films: The Adventures of Buratino, The Boy from Neapolis (Мальчик из Неаполя), Chipollino (Чиполино).

Creators

	English	Russian
Director-producers	Dmitriy Babichenko Ivan Ivanov-Vano	Дмитрий Бабиченко Иван Иванов-Вано
Director	Mikhail Botov	Михаил Ботов
Scenario	Nikolai Erdman Lyudmila Tolstaya	Николай Эрдман Людмила Толстая
Art Directors	Svetozar Rusakov Pyotr Repkin	Светозар Русаков Пётр Репкин
Artists	D. Anpilov K. Malyshev O. Gemmerling G. Nevzorova Protr Korobayev I. Kuskova	Д. Анпилов К. Малышев О. Геммерлинг Г. Невзорова Пётр Коробаев И. Кускова
Animators	Faina Yepifanova Vadim Dolgikh Fyodor Khitruk Boris Butakov Kirill Malyantovich Igor Podgorskiy Vladimir Pekar Vladimir Popov Konstantin Chikin Vladimir Krumin Yelena Khludova Valentin Karavayev	Фаина Епифанова Вадим Долгих Фёдор Хитрук Борис Бутаков Кирилл Малянтович Игорь Подгорский Владимир Пекарь Владимир Попов Константин Чикин Владимир Крумин Елена Хлудова Валентин Караваев
Camera Operators	Mikhail Druyan	Михаил Друян
Composer	Anatoliy Lepin	Анатолий Лепин
Sound Operator	Georgy Martynyuk	Георгий Мартынюк
Script Editor	Raisa Frichinskaya	Раиса Фричинская
Editor	N. Mayorova	Н. Майорова
Voice actors	Georgy Vitsin Yelena Ponsova Tamara Dmitrieva Aleksandr Baranov Nina Gulyayeva Margarita Korabelnikova Yevgeny Vesnik Vladimir Lepko	Георгий Вицин Елена Понсова Тамара Дмитриева Александр Баранов Нина Гуляева Маргарита Корабельникова Евгений Весник Владимир Лепко
English Dub Voice actors	Joseph Mazzello as Buratino/Pinocchio Bill Murray as Basilio Mel Ferrer as Papa Carlo	Джозеф Маццелло Билл Мюррей Мел Феррера

Awards

• Minsk, 1960 - First prize in the animated film category

Familiar expressions

• Not cROAKastor oil, but castor oil!
• Better to die of an illness, than of castor oil.
• Well boys, since you're alive, go wash your hands!
• The past will bathe present.

See also

• History of Russian animation
• List of animated feature-length films

External links

• The Adventures of Buratino at animator.ru (English and Russian)
• Priklyucheniya Buratino on IMDb
• The Adventures of Buratino on YouTube (Official Russian)
• The Adventures of Buratino on YouTube (Russian with English subtitles)
• The Adventures of Buratino on YouTube (English with Portuguese subtitles)
• The Adventures of Buratino at myltik.ru (in Russian)

DVDs

• The Adventures of Buratino at Krupnyy Plan (in Russian)
  • Review of Krupnyy Plan DVD (with pictures) (in Russian)