The Adventures of Buratino (1976 film) the makers of "The Adventures of Buratino," including "About the Little Red Riding Hood" ("Ольга Береснева") in 1977. The Adventures of Buratino (1976 film) The Adventures of Buratino () is a Soviet children's musical film, made in 1975 at Belarusfilm. Directed by Leonid Nechayev, the film was an adaptation of "The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino" by Alexey Tolstoy in turn an adaptation of Italian novel "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi. Inna Vetkina wrote the screenplay for "The Adventures of Buratino", as well as several other films directed by Nechayev. The plot of the film follows
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996 film) the special effects. Siskel remarked that he believed the film is a faithful adaptation of the book, as opposed to Disney's interpretation, which strayed significantly from it. In her seminar "The Persistent Puppet: Pinocchio's Heirs in Contemporary Fiction and Film," Rebecca West finds the film to be relatively faithful to the original novel, although she notes major differences such as the replacement of the Blue Fairy by the character of Leona. A sequel was released in 1999 called "The New Adventures of Pinocchio". Landau reprised his role as Geppetto, while Kier was recast as Lorenzini's estranged wife, Madame Flambeau (they