Приключения Буратино - Adventures of Buratino

[mehilaainen]

I am still about art (especially cinema) of my childhood :) But I guess that it can be interesting for both: foreigners - to learn about it and Russians - to remember how it was. This is one of the favorite movies of children in the USSR - Adventures of Buratino of Alexei Tolstoi (kind of Russian Pinoccio

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[hakuzo]

It's funny you bring this up. The only thing even close to this that American children had was The Wizard of Oz. While this was a classic in every sense of the word, it was also propaganda aimed at adults!

The American dollar used to be based on gold (you could take take a dollar bill of any denomination into the bank at any time and demand to be paid in gold). This was called the 'Gold Standard'. You can no longer do this because one of our presidents removed the law that made it so. When they say 'Follow The Yellow Brick Road' in the movie, they are talking about the 'Gold Standard'. The whole movie is about American politics and economics. Anyway, it is so ingeniously done that people still watch it today (both children and adults) and most of them don't even know what it is really about.

Did they show this or have the book in the USSR? It's old, but it is very capitalist... LOL

[mehilaainen]

Hey, isn't it about a girl Elly (I am not sure in spelling) from Arkansas? Yes, it was my favorite book when i was 10. The author - A.Volkov; so now I see - he took the book of F.Baum and re-wrote it for Soviet children (of course he excluded all "capitalist" trickes from there)... At that time for me Arkansas was the name of some fairy-tale land... But ok, we had it too, though the title was a bit different... "Wizard of emerald town" something like this... 6 or 7 volumes... umm... I would read it now again... Btw, we did not have movie for this, only cartoon if I am not wrong.

[hakuzo]

In the American version her name was Dorothy. =)