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Приключе́ния Бурати́но (The Adventures of Buratino)

81 in x of animated feature film history
Release: Jan. 4th, 1960
Country: Soviet Union
Director: Dmitriy Babichenko, Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Mikhail Botov

“The Adventures of Buratino is based on the book The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino (1936) by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, and is based on the 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. Buratino quickly became hugely popular among children in the Soviet Union, and remains so to this day.

According to Tolstoy, he had read Pinocchio as a child, but, having lost the book, he started re-imagining it many years later in an attempt to come up with a series of bedside stories for his own children.

Like Pinocchio, Buratino is a long-nosed wooden puppet. According to the story, he is carved by Papa Carlo from a log, and suddenly comes to life. Papa Carlo then sends Buratino to school. However, the boy becomes distracted by an advertisement for a local puppet theater show, and sells his textbooks to buy a ticket to the show. There he befriends other puppets, but the evil puppetmaster Karabas Barabas wants to destroy him because Buratino disrupted the show.

Karabas Barabas releases Buratino after he learns that Papa Carlo’s home contains a secret door for which Karabas has been searching. A golden key that Karabas once possessed, but later lost, opens this secret door. Karabas releases Buratino and even gives him five gold coins, asking only that Buratino watch after his father’s home and make sure they do not move. The story proceeds to tell of Buratino and his friends’ hunt for the golden key, and their struggle against the evil Karabas, as well as a couple of crooks: Alice the Fox and Basilio the Cat, who are after Buratino’s coins.”

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The Adventures of Buratino is available on YouTube.