The Adventures of Buratino

The Adventures of Buratino

1959 · 68 min · ★ 6.7 · Family, Adventure, Animation, Fantasy

A wooden boy Buratino tries to find his place in life. He befriends toys from a toy theater owned by evil Karabas-Barabas, gets tricked by Alice the Fox and Basilio the Cat and finally discovers the mystery of a golden key given to him by kind Tortila the Tortoise.

Directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano · Written by Lyudmila Tolstaya

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Nina Gulyayeva Buratino (voice)
Yevgeni Vesnik Father Carlo (voice)
Georgiy Vitsin Giuseppe (voice)
Tamara Dmitrieva Malvina (voice)
Margarita Korabelnikova Piero (voice)
Aleksandr Baranov Carabas (voice)
Elena Ponsova Alice the Fox (voice)
Vladimir Lepko Basilio the Cat (voice)

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