Buratino, Son of Pinocchio
MovieTitle | Buratino |
User score | 4.8 |
Release date | Mar 12, 2009 |
Genre | Comedy |
Director | Rasmus Merivoo |
Production country | Estonia, Russia |
Production companies | Estinfilm, Marvofilm, Planeta kino |
Budget | $1,100,000 |
Run time | 76 min. |
Imagine a mix of Repo Man, Oliver! and Pinocchio and you're on the road to grasping the tone of this bizarre Estonian take on Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's character Buratino, a wooden boy (or boyus woodenus, as the doctors in the film refer to him). Buratino's virginal mother wishes upon a star for a son and is immediately answered by what can only be called a rape-splinter. The woman gives birth almost immediately to her little wooden Buratino.