The Adventures of Buratino (1959 film)

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.

The Adventures of Buratino
Krupnyy Plan DVD cover
Directed byDmitriy Babichenko
Ivan Ivanov-Vano
Written byNikolai Erdman
Lyudmila Tolstaya
Produced byIvan Ivanov-Vano
Starring
Edited byNina Mayorova
Music byAnatoly Lepin
Production
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Release date
  • December 31, 1959 (1959-12-31) (USSR)
Running time
67 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Plot

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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.

Dubs

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In 1984, an English dub of the film was recorded at Jim Terry Productions (the same people behind the first English dub of the Pinocchio anime). This dub was released on subsequent VHS tapes throughout the 80s and early 90s. A second attempt at an English dub commenced in 1990, and a third in 1995 by Films by Jove for the series Stories from My Childhood.[citation needed]

In 2005, a Spanish dub of the film was published by East West DVD Entertainment under the title Las nuevas aventuras de Pinocchio. It is unknown whether this dub is a direct translation of the Russian film; since East West was an American entity, it is likely that their dub is instead a translation of one of the English versions.[1]

DVD releases

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

Creators

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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
Yelena Ponsova
Vladimir Lepko

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
Александр Баранов
Елена Понсова
Владимир Лепко

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

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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Las nuevas aventuras de Pinocchio (lost dub)". Retrieved 2024-08-16.
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DVDs

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