The Adventures of Pinocchio (1972 film)

The Adventures of Pinocchio
Based on The Adventures of Pinocchio
by Carlo Collodi
Written by Luigi Comencini
Suso Cecchi D'Amico
(from Carlo Collodi)
Directed by Luigi Comencini
Starring Nino Manfredi
Andrea Balestri
Gina Lollobrigida
Vittorio De Sica
Theme music composer Fiorenzo Carpi
Country of origin Italy
Original language(s) Italian
Production
Producer(s) Franco Cristaldi
Cinematography Armando Nannuzzi
Editor(s) Nino Baragli
Running time 360 min (French cut)
280 min (extended cut)
135 min (cut edition)
Release
Picture format Color
Original release
  • April 8, 1972 (1972-04-08)

The Adventures of Pinocchio (Italian: Le avventure di Pinocchio) is a 1972 Italian miniseries directed by Luigi Comencini. Based on the Carlo Collodi's novel with the same name, the miniseries got a large critical success, and had an average of twenty-one and a half million viewers during its first airing on Rai 1.[1] A 135-minute edit of the miniseries was released to theatrical film markets in Europe the same year.[2]

Plot

Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and when trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastero Cherry, he decides to build himself a puppet to make him company. The puppet is Pinocchio. At night, a Fairy visits the carpenter's shop to see Pinocchio. The woman makes a deal with the puppet: if he behaves, honoring his father in the process, he will become a human being, otherwise he will remain a piece of wood. Pinocchio promises, and magically becomes a kid.Once day he runs away. He steels food from a fishermen and a policeman catches him and takes Geppetto to jail. Pinocchio tries to find food but gets water dumped on him. He goes home and finds the talking cricket he tells him to be good but he just throws a hammer at him smashing a picture of the Fairy with Turquoise Hair. He puts his feet in the fire and turns back into a puppet. Geppetto comes back gives him food and new feet. He sends him to school but Pinocchio goes to the puppet show instead. There the puppets see him and tell to come on stage. The stage master takes Pinocchio and wants to burn but Pinocchio cries and he lets Pinocchio go with 7 gold coins. Pinocchio runs into two people (who work for a puppet master as a fox and cat) who what to take Pinocchio's gold. Pinocchio runs away but two robbers (The fox and cat) who hang him. But the fairy turns him into a puppet and runs to the fairy's house. 2 doctor comes to tell if he should be a puppet or a boy. Pinocchio lies to fairy and his nose grows. The fairy takes birds and trim his nose. Pinocchio runs off and meets the fox and cat who tell him about the field of wonders. Pinocchio buries his gold and it gets stolen. He tells a judge but winds up in jail. After 5 months he goes off and gets his foot in a bear trap and is used as a dog. He finds that 2 people are steeling the gold and barks. He is let free and goes to the fairies and finds her grave. The farmer tells him that Geppetto has gone to find him. At sea, Pinocchio finds Geppetto falls off his boat and Pinocchio jumps in. On land he finds Lucignolo running from his mother. Who finds the fairy and goes to school. Lucignolo is found and comes too. Pinoochio tells him about a bif party he is having but Lucignolo is going to the land of toys. He goes back to the fairies but his food is made out of clay. He runs to the land of toys. But he turns into a donkey. He is sold to a circus but breaks a leg and is sold to make a drum. He jumps in the sea as a puppet and is eaten by a monster shark. In the neck he finds a tunny fish and passes into the belly where is Geppetto. Pinocchio is turned into a real boy. And he goes in the mouth. Geppetto wants to stay but Pinocchio wants to leave. Seeing the tunny has gone free he and Geppetto ride on it till land Where they run and hope to find food.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Peppino Ortoleva, Maria Teresa Di Marco. Luci del teleschermo: televisione e cultura in Italia. Mondadori Electa, 2004. ISBN 8837032412.
  2. ↑ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.


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