Once upon a time, in a certain town on the Mediterranean coast, the carpenter Giuseppe gives his friend the organ-grinder Carlo a talking log that, you see, does not want to be jammed. In a poor closet under the stairs, where even the hearth was painted on a piece of old canvas, Carlo cuts a boy with a long nose out of log and gives him the name Pinocchio. He sells his jacket and buys the alphabet for the wooden son so that he can learn. But on the first day on the way to school, the boy sees a puppet theater and sells the alphabet to buy a ticket. During the performance in the booth, the sad Pierrot, provocative Harlequin and other dolls suddenly recognize Pinocchio. The performance of the comedy “Girl with Blue Hair, or Thirty-Three Slap” is ripped off. The owner of the theater, he is a playwright and director Karabas Barabas, looking like a bearded crocodile, wants to burn a wooden troublemaker. Here, the innocent Pinocchio for the occasion tells about the painted hearth of Papa Carlo, and suddenly warmed up Karabas gives Pinocchio five gold coins. The main thing, he asks, is not to move anywhere from this closet. On the way back, Pinocchio meets two beggars - the fox Alice and the cat Basilio. Having learned about the coins, they offer Pinocchio to go to the beautiful Land of Fools. From the buried there on the Field of Miracles denezhek as if growing in the morning a whole money tree. On the way to the Country of Fools, Pinocchio loses his companions, and he is attacked in the night forest by robbers suspiciously like a fox and a cat. Pinocchio hides the coins in his mouth, and to shake them, the robbers hang the boy upside down on the tree and leave. In the morning, he is discovered by Malvina, a girl with blue hair, who, along with poodle Artemon, escaped from Karabas Barabas, who oppressed poor puppet actors. With purely girlish enthusiasm, she takes up the education of an uncouth boy, which ends with his placement in a dark closet. A bat leads him out of there, and, meeting with a fox and a cat, gullible Pinocchio finally gets to the Field of Miracles, which for some reason looks like a dump, digs up coins and sits down to wait for the harvest, but Alice and Basilio insidiously let the local police bulldogs at him, and they dump a brainless wooden boy into the river. But a man made of logs cannot drown. The elderly tortoise Tortila opens Pinocchio's eyes to the greed of his friends and gives him a golden key, which a man with a long beard once dropped into the river. The key must open some door, and this will bring happiness. Returning from the Country of Fools, Pinocchio rescues the frightened Pierrot, who also escaped from Karabas, and leads him to Malvina. While Pierrot, who is in love, unsuccessfully tries to console Malvina with his poems, a terrible battle begins at the edge of the forest. The brave poodle Artemon, along with forest birds, animals and insects, beat the hated police dogs. Trying to grab Pinocchio, Karabas glues a beard to a resinous pine. Enemies are retreating. Pinocchio overhears a conversation between Karabas and the leech merchant Duremar in a tavern and learns a great secret: a golden key opens a door hidden behind a drawn hearth in Carlo's closet. Friends rush home, unlock the door and only have time to slam it behind them as policemen with Karabas Barabas burst into the closet. An underground passage leads our heroes to treasure - it is of amazing beauty ... a theater. This will be a new theater, without a director with a seven-tailed whip, a theater in which puppets become real actors. Everyone who has not yet escaped from Karabas, rushes to the Pinocchio Theater, where music plays merrily, and hungry artists are waiting behind the scenes for a hot lamb stew with garlic. Doctor of puppet sciences Karabas Barabas remains to sit in a puddle in the rain.

Thanks to advertising, Briefley is free: