THE ADVENTURES OF BURATINO (1976) (Church of Film)

Carlo the Craftsman carves a doll out of an enchanted log, and it magically comes alive as a real young boy, Pin… err, Buratino! After befriending a troupe of toy actors, Buratino has a long and perilous adventure, continually tricked by Karabasbarabas, Alice the Fox, and Basilio the Cat, until he discovers the secret of the Golden Key.

THE ADVENTURES OF BURATINO is a glorious adaptation of Aleksey Tolstoy’s The Golden Key—a story that began as a Soviet translation of Pinocchio before radically departing from its Italian source. Full of striking and beautiful sets, and a brilliant soundtrack by the great Aleksey Rybnikov!