The Adventures of Buratino (1959 film) 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 fact, Burattino is a puppet in
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