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 | |
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 Krupnyy Plan DVD cover | |
| Directed by | Dmitriy Babichenko Ivan Ivanov-Vano |
| Written by | Nikolai Erdman Lyudmila Tolstaya |
| Produced by | Ivan Ivanov-Vano |
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| Edited by | Nina Mayorova |
| Music by | Anatoly Lepin |
Production company | |
Release date | December 31, 1959 (USSR) |
Running time | 67 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| 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 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
Tamara Dmitrieva Margarita Korabelnikova Aleksandr Baranov Tatiana Strukova Yulia Yulskaya Vladimir Ratomsky Leonid Pirogov Yuri Khrzhanovsky |
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
- Minsk, 1960 - First prize in the animated film category
External links
- 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
- The Adventures of Buratino at Krupnyy Plan (in Russian)
- Review of Krupnyy Plan DVD (with pictures) (in Russian)