The Adventures of Buratino (1959 film)

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	Georgiy Vitsin Yelena Ponsova T. Dmitrieva Aleksandr Baranov N. Gulyayeva Margarita Korabelnikova Yevgeniy Vesnik V. Lepko
Music by	Anatoliy Lepin
Edited by	N. Mayorova
Release date	1959 (USSR)
Running time	67 minutes
Country	USSR
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 Tolstoy's The Golden Key, or Adventures of Buratino.

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. 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"). 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. Contains Russian soundtrack with English subtitles. Included films: The Adventures of Buratino, The Boy from Neapolis (Мальчик из Неаполя), Chipollino (Чиполино).

Plot

History of adventures of the wooden doll of Buratino which is cut out from a log by the organ-grinder Carlo.

Creators

Awards

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

Familiar expressions

• Not cROAKastor oil, and castor oil!
• It is better to die of an illness, than of castor oil.
• Well, boys, time you are living, go to wash 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)