The Golden Key (1939)
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.
Director: Aleksandr Ptushko
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Sergei Martinson as Duremar |
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Olga Shaganova-Obraztsova as Buratino |
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Aleksandr Shchagin as Karabas-Barabas |
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Georgiy Uvarov as Papa Carlo |
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Mikhail Dagmarov as Giuseppe |
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Raisa Khairova as Pierrot |
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Tamara Adelheim as Malvina |
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Nikolai Michurin as Sandro |
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Valentina Pokorskaya as Alice |
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Kirill Nikiforov as Basilio |
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Nikolai Bogolyubov as Air ship captain |
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S. Zonnenburg as |
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Aleksandra Vasilyeva as |
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Veniamin Gut as (uncredited) |
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Vasiliy Krasnoshchyokov as Policeman (uncredited) |
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Georgi Millyar as Clown-announcer (uncredited) |
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Pavel Rozhitsky as Sweets seller (uncredited) |
| Directing | Aleksandr Ptushko | Director |
| Writing | Carlo Collodi | Novel |
| Writing | Aleksei Tolstoy | Writer |
| Writing | Lyudmila Tolstaya | Writer |
| Writing | Nikolai Leshchenko | Writer |
| Sound | Lev Shvarts | Original Music Composer |
| Visual Effects | Nikolai Renkov | Visual Effects Camera |
| Camera | Nikolai Renkov | Director of Photography |
| Art | Yuri Shvets | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Valentin Kadochnikov | Costume Design |
| Art | Valentin Kadochnikov | Property Graphic Designer |
| Art | K. Levandovskaya | Property Master |
| Art | Roman Gurov | Property Master |
| Art | E. Loshkareva | Property Master |
| Art | N. Gekhtman | Property Master |
| Art | V. Chernikhova | Property Master |
| Art | Valentin Kadochnikov | Property Master |
| Costume & Make-Up | V. Shishkov | Makeup Artist |
| Visual Effects | Konstantin Nikiforov | Animation |
| Visual Effects | V. Pokorskaya | Animation |
| Visual Effects | F. Tikhonova | Animation |
| Visual Effects | S. Zonnenburg | Animation Director |
| Visual Effects | A. Vasilyeva | Animation Director |
| Art | N. Shirkova | Property Master |
| Art | E. Shirkova | Property Master |
| Art | Ye. Sergeeva | Property Master |
| Production | Mikh. Berdichevskiy | Executive Producer |
| Production | B. Chizhov | Administration |
| Production | Sergey Sapronov | Administration |
| Editing | Vsevolod Massino | Editor |
| Visual Effects | Aleksandr Ptushko | Visual Effects Director |
| Sound | A. Bondarev | Sound Director |
| Sound | Boris Volsky | Sound |
| Sound | Yu. Pevzner | Sound |
| Sound | Vasily Shirinsky | Conductor |
| Directing | Pera Atasheva | Assistant Director |
| Directing | G. Soluyanov | First Assistant Director |
| Visual Effects | G. Yalov | Animation Director |