Buratino Adventures -

Despite good intentions, Buratino sells his ABC book to get a ticket to a puppet theater performance. During the show, he interrupts the cruel puppet master , who initially wants to burn Buratino but becomes fascinated when the puppet mentions a secret door behind a painted fireplace in Carlo’s closet. Karabas gives Buratino five gold coins and warns him not to leave Carlo’s closet — a lie to find the door himself.

The Adventures of Buratino (Russian: Приключения Буратино ) is a 1936 Soviet children’s book by Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy , based on Carlo Collodi’s 1883 Italian classic The Adventures of Pinocchio . Tolstoy initially translated Collodi’s story but found it too moralistic and dark. He decided to rewrite it as a lighter, more humorous, and ideologically distinct tale for Soviet children.

Buratino is tricked by the fox (blind) and the cat Basilio (lame) into going to the “Land of Fools” (a satire of capitalist greed), where they bury his coins, claiming a magical tree grows money. Buratino is robbed and imprisoned.