The Golden Key

The Golden Key is a 1939 Soviet fairy-tale movie directed by Aleksandr Ptushko. It is based on the story of Pinocchio written by Carlo Collodi. In 2009, Russia TV adapted both the original & its remake into a musical Plot In a fairy tale, Carlo the charmer carves a wooden puppet out of a log. Buratino embarks on amazing adventures, defeating all his enemies. The original play's plot lines differ from "The Golden Key", or "The Adventures of Buratino", the movie's ending is filmed according to the play. Buratino and his friends open the cherished door with the golden key, reach the magic book, and, on the airship descended from its pages, join Soviet polar explorers in a journey to the country where "all children study in schools, and old people live gloriously." Starring Aleksandr Shchagin as Karabas Barabas (as A. Shchagin) Sergey Martinson as Duremar, village knave (as S. Martinson) Olga Shaganova-Obraztsova as Buratino (voice) (as O. Shaganova-Obraztsova) Georgiy Uvarov as Papa Carlo (as G. Uvarov) Nikolay Bogolyubov as Captain of the airship (as N. Bogolyubov) Mikhail Dagmarov as Giuseppe (as M. Dagmarov) Tamara Adelgeym as Malvina (voice) (as T. Adelgeym) R. Khairova as Pierrot (voice) Nikolai Michurin as Sandro (as N. Michurin) Konstantin Nikiforov as Puppet master (as K. Nikiforov) V. Pokorskaya as Puppet master F. Tikhonova as Puppet master Vasiliy Krasnoshchyokov as Policeman (uncredited) Georgiy Millyar as Clown (uncredited) Production In scenes featuring puppet characters, including Buratino himself, a combination of classical frame-by-frame three-dimensional animation and the method of perspective matching was used. The former was applied primarily when Buratino interacted with Shushara, Tortila, Alice, and Basilio, with all of them portrayed as puppets. The latter method was used in scenes with Karabas-Barabas, Papa Carlo, and other human characters, where the actors playing them stood much closer to the camera to match the scale. Additionally, in several scenes, Buratino was represented by a marionette puppet.