The Adventures of Pinocchio (1972 film) he goes in the mouth. Geppetto wants to stay but Pinocchio wants to leave. Seeing the tunny has gone free he and Geppetto ride on it till land Where they run and hope to find food. The Adventures of Pinocchio (1972 film) The Adventures of Pinocchio () is a 1972 Italian miniseries directed by Luigi Comencini. Based on the Carlo Collodi's novel with the same name, the miniseries got a large critical success, and had an average of twenty-one and a half million viewers during its first airing on Rai 1. A 135-minute edit of the miniseries was released to
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