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
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996 film) talking cricket. However Shawn's voice as Pepe can still be heard in the trailer for the film and he is even credited in the trailer. Rachel Portman's score features saxophone solos by David Roach. "The Adventures of Pinocchio" was made on a budget of $25 million. The film had a poor performance in the United States, opening at #8 on its first week, then grossing $15,094,530 at the box office. Critically, the film received a "rotten" 27% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. On the television review series "Siskel & Ebert", Roger Ebert expressed disappointment with the film, while Gene Siskel praised