The Adventures of Buratino (1959 film) the first version of the novel. The Adventures of Buratino (1959 film) The Adventures of Buratino or The All-New Adventures of Pinocchio (; 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 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
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