The Adventures of Buratino (1976 film) 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 Buratino (Italian for "puppet"), a boy made of wood, who meets the children of Karabas Barabas' theatre and
Pinocchio: The Series Fortunately, the Oak Fairy is able to save him by scaring away the army and transforming the boy into a fully human child, though this means she will no longer be able to appear to him. The series was adapted into English in the 1990s by Saban Entertainment under the title Pinocchio: The Series (colloquial also known as "Saban's (The) Adventures of Pinocchio"). This version was shown in the United States on weekday mornings on HBO in 1992. A separate American version was created by Jim Terry ("Force Five"). Titled The Adventures of Pinocchio, it consisted of several episodes edited