

Pinocchio gets the gritty Russian indie treatment — wooden boy, existential dread, Fyodor Bondarchuk as a creepy puppet master.
A screen adaptation of the beloved international fairy tale by Alexei Tolstoy in a new way. The story of everyone's favorite hero Pinocchio, his dad Carlo and their friends, told with the help of modern life-action technologies.
Practical Effects
Unsettlingly tactile marionette design that haunts your dreams
Acting
Bondarchuk's Karabas: part ringmaster, part existential threat
Costume
Buratino's wooden boy aesthetic — distressed, lived-in, slightly cursed

Director
Igor Voloshin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This adapts Alexei Tolstoy's 1936 Buratino, not Collodi's original — it's Soviet children's literature, full of collective values and anti-bourgeois messaging.
Director Igor Voloshin previously made edgy music videos; this is his family film pivot, which explains the tonal whiplash.
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