| The Adventures of Buratino | |
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 Krupnyy Plan DVD cover | |
| Directed by | Dmitriy Babichenko Ivan Ivanov-Vano |
| Produced by | Ivan Ivanov-Vano |
| Written by | Nikolai Erdman Lyudmila Tolstaya |
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| Music by | Anatoly Lepin |
| Edited by | Nina Mayorova |
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| Release date | December 31, 1959 (USSR) |
| Running time | 67 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
The Adventures of Buratino (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.
Plot[edit]
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[edit]
- 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[edit]
| 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 Operator | Mikhail Druyan | Михаил Друян |
| Composer | Anatoly Lepin | Анатолий Лепин |
| Sound Operator | Georgy Martynyuk | Георгий Мартынюк |
| Script Editor | Raisa Frichinskaya | Раиса Фричинская |
| Editor | Nina Mayorova | Нина Майорова |
| Voice actors | Nina Gulyayeva Yevgeny Vesnik Georgy Vitsin Tamara Dmitrieva Margarita Korabelnikova Aleksandr Baranov Tatiana Strukova Yulia Yulskaya Vladimir Ratomsky Maria Vinogradova Leonid Pirogov Erast Garin Sergey Martinson Anastasia Zuyeva Yuri Khrzhanovsky Grigory Shpigel | Нина Гуляева Евгений Весник Георгий Вицин Тамара Дмитриева Маргарита Корабельникова Татьяна Струкова Юлия Юльская Владимир Ратомский Мария Виноградова Леонид Пирогов Эраст Гарин Сергей Мартинсон Анастасия Зуева Юрий Хржановский Григорий Шпигель |
| English Dub Voice actors | Joseph Mazzello as Buratino Bill Murray as Basilio Mel Ferrer as Papa Carlo | Джозеф Маццелло Билл Мюррей Мел Феррер |
Awards[edit]
- Minsk, 1960 - First prize in the animated film category
See also[edit]
- History of Russian animation
- List of animated feature-length films
External links[edit]
- The Adventures of Buratino at animator.ru (English and Russian)
- Priklyucheniya Buratino at 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[edit]
- The Adventures of Buratino at Krupnyy Plan (in Russian)
- Review of Krupnyy Plan DVD (with pictures) (in Russian)
