The Golden Key
5.3(15) 1939-12-20 72 minAnimationFantasyAdventure
A film combining live action and stop-motion animation about the adventures of the wooden boy Pinocchio and his friends - Pierrot, Malvina and Artemon the Poodle, about the mysterious golden key that opens the cherished door, about the good Papa Carlo and the evil Karabas-Barabas, Duremar, Basilio the Cat and Alice the Fox.
DirectorAleksandr Ptushko
WriterAleksei Tolstoy
WriterLyudmila Tolstaya
WriterNikolai Leshchenko
Original Music ComposerLev Shvarts
AnimationKonstantin Nikiforov
AnimationV. Pokorskaya
AnimationF. Tikhonova
Cast & characters
Sergei Martinson
as Duremar
Olga Shaganova-Obraztsova
as Buratino
Aleksandr Shchagin
as Karabas-Barabas
Georgiy Uvarov
as Papa Carlo
Mikhail Dagmarov
as Giuseppe
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Raisa Khairova
as Pierrot
Tamara Adelheim
as Malvina
Nikolai Michurin
as Sandro
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Valentina Pokorskaya
as Alice
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Kirill Nikiforov
as Basilio
Nikolai Bogolyubov
as Air ship captain
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S. Zonnenburg
as —
Aleksandra Vasilyeva
as —
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Veniamin Gut
as (uncredited)
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Vasiliy Krasnoshchyokov
as Policeman (uncredited)
Georgi Millyar
as Clown-announcer (uncredited)
Pavel Rozhitsky
as Sweets seller (uncredited)