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
Vitaliya Kornienko
Buratino
Aleksandr Yatsenko
Papa Carlo
Fyodor Bondarchuk
Karabas
Alexander Petrov
Bazilio
Viktoriya Isakova
Alisa
Svetlana Nemolyaeva
Tortila
Lev Zulkarnaev
Duremar
Mark Eydelshteyn
Artemon
Ruzil Minekaev
Arlekin
Stepan Belozerov
Piero
Anastasia Talyzina
Malvina
Nikolay Drozdov
Alessandro (voice)
Anton Shastun
Anton (voice)
Vanya Dmitrienko
Dzhovanni (voice)
Polina Raykina
Teacher
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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