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Being born with a nose: the creators of "Pinocchio" revealed the details of the project
50 years after the premiere of the TV movie "The Adventures of Pinocchio", the fairy tale returns to the screens. Together with your favorite songs, heroes that all adults and children of our country know, and the most modern technologies that will make Pinocchio's world look more spectacular than ever. This became clear from the first trailer of the movie. Izvestia correspondents visited the set and saw with their own eyes how new pages of the wooden man's biography were being created. His story will be released on January 1, 2026. To whom the 3D character Pinocchio will owe his facial expressions and plasticity, how the images and characters of the characters were created, and whether anyone recognizes Fyodor Bondarchuk in one of the roles — in our report.
The new story of Pinocchio
Almost half a century ago, on January 1, 1976, Leonid Nechaev's film "The Adventures of Pinocchio" was shown on Central Television. With Roland Bykov as Basilio the Cat, Elena Sanaeva as Alice the Fox, Vladimir Etush as Karabas, Rina Zelenaya as Tortilla and Vladimir Basov as Duremar. Pinocchio was played by Dima Iosifov, who immediately became a star.
Since then, not a single child in the country has passed by this film, and all generations of viewers remember the songs to the music of Alexei Rybnikov and the words of Yuri Entin by heart.
But some of the Pinocchio story didn't make it into Alexei Tolstoy's book The Golden Key, or The Adventures of Pinocchio, or its television adaptation, because it hadn't been invented yet. This was done by screenwriters Andrei Zolotarev, Aksinya Borisova and Alina Tyazhlova, producers of "Ice" and "A Hundred years Ahead" Mikhail Vrubel and Alexander Andryushchenko, and embodied on the screen by director Igor Voloshin, director of "The Wizard of Oz". The result is not a film adaptation in its purest form, but a recognizable story based on motives, a new chapter of the adventures of the wooden boy. Vitaliya Kornienko played him in the new version, although she remained essentially behind the scenes.
Directed by Igor Voloshin
She's the only actress on the set who doesn't have to spend hours in makeup. And she doesn't wear a nice suit. But she has a jumpsuit with sensors and a helmet with a design that mimics Pinocchio's long nose.
"He weighs about six kilograms," says Vitaly Kornienko. — I also have two types of gloves with sensors that transmit a signal and record hand movements. It's an unusual and very cool experience for me. I admit, I had a dream to play a boy, and now it has come true.
In the frame, the viewer will see a wooden boy with a long nose, familiar from books and animations, created using 3D computer graphics. And in order for Pinocchio to come to life, motion capture technology is used — sensors and cameras capture the movements and complex facial expressions of a real artist, digitize them and use them to animate a computer object.
"Unlike the film released in 1976, we have the technology to bring the wooden boy to life," said producer Alexander Andryushchenko. — And you need to make it very convincing so that the audience believes that it really exists, that the doll has come to life. It seems like an attraction, but we have to use it. This is a new stage that we can reach as filmmakers.
In the story, one day Papa Carlo gets an old magic key that helps fulfill any wish. But the lonely master wants only one thing — a son. Little Carlo will carve himself a boy from a revived log and give him the name Pinocchio. He loves his son very much, but Pinocchio gradually realizes that he is not like everyone else, and embarks on a long and adventurous journey to prove to dad that he is a good and true son.
This, the filmmakers say, is a story about how important it is to stay true to yourself in any situation, because each of us is unique. And then love will help, because where there is love, there is a miracle.
Who plays Pinocchio
The Pinocchio cast is full of stars of all generations. The legend of theater and cinema, People's Artist of the RSFSR Svetlana Nemolyaeva plays a Tortilla. Fyodor Bondarchuk picked up a whip and transformed into Karabas-Barabas, and Lev Zulkarnaev became his accomplice. Alexander Yatsenko is now a kind Carlo. Alexander Petrov and Victoria Isakova are a pair of adventurers Basilio the Cat and Alice the Fox. Actors at the Karabas Theater are played by Mark Eidelstein, Ruzil Minekaev, Stepan Belozerov and Anastasia Talyzina.
— I must admit, my faith in magic came from Santa Claus for the first time, and Pinocchio for the second time, — Mark Edelstein, aka Artemon, confided to Izvestia on the set. — These two characters are the beginning of magic for me, so I gladly agreed to act in the film.
According to him, Mark has a complete understanding with Minekaev-Harlequin, because they became friends on the set of the TV series "The Bow".
The film's set was built 30 km from the Moscow Ring Road, in the Moskino Film Park. It didn't really look like a playground either. Just a small town with a town hall square, fountains, a trattoria, a bakery, a pharmacy, merchants' shops... yellow houses with red tiled roofs, and potted flowers on the balconies. Wooden shutters cover the windows. It looks a bit like medieval Florence.
In the fabulous city, the facades of houses are decorated with the faces of the Madonna and Child in her arms. Alexander Yatsenko gave Izvestia a tour of the set.
— Behind that house, behind you, is Banana Street. There's a pawnbroker's shop there, where I borrowed the ABC. And there's a bakery on that street. Here, on the square, we danced, — says Alexander Yatsenko.
In the center of the square stands the trailer on which Pinocchio arrived. And next to it, on the wall, the wind is trying to disrupt a wanted poster for a dangerous criminal with a long nose.
The producers invited Svetlana Nemolyaeva to play the role of Tortilla.
"We have to believe that Tortilla is wise, which means that she must be a great artist, recognizable, and a star of Soviet cinema," says producer Mikhail Vrubel. — You'll understand why it's important later when you see the movie. By the way, it's not so easy to get an artist of Svetlana Nemolyaeva's stature into a film. When you invite big actors to play a fairy tale, you have to convince them that this is serious, and not a children's matinee.
The Unrecognizable Karabas-Barabas
— It's my childhood dream to star in Pinocchio, I'm in a fairy tale! Anastasia Talyzina, who will be transformed into Malvina, confessed to Izvestia. — We have magical scenery, material and a movie. Our Pinocchio is different from the original 1976 masterpiece.
Talyzina's heroine is an unrefined girl with blue hair. Her character looks like a child with a difficult fate.
"That's why my hair turned gray," says the actress. "She's the epitome of frozen energy. There are tears in my eyes all the time.
Will there be a hero who will melt her heart? Who will be Malvina's therapist? As the actress admits, only Pinocchio will melt her heart.
But Harlequino, played by Ruzil Minekaev, is a positive, optimistic and emotional hero.
"It wasn't easy to find a solution to this image: it had to be light, but still not frivolous and with a story," the actor says about his character. — I won't reveal all the secrets, but one of the things that director Igor Voloshin and I agreed on and which formed the basis of the image is our love of rock.
But Fyodor Bondarchuk has the most complex and at the same time amazing makeup. Red beard to the floor, the same red curls. The costumers added fifty kilograms to the artist with the help of superimposed thicknesses on his arms and stomach. As Fyodor Bondarchuk admits, it is very inconvenient to act in all this. It takes 4 hours to make up.
"And these eyebrows are dedicated to Vladimir Etush,— says Bondarchuk. "No one recognizes me, not even my family. But it helps. One day I'm sitting on a bench, Alexander Petrov is next to me. He looks at me, looks at me, and suddenly: "Oh, God, the almighty Lord." "Hello, Sanya. It's me." Barabas is a very cunning man. But where to show his humanity? I'm trying to find him because Igor Voloshin, in my opinion, makes me such a universal evil, and cunning, and treachery.
Make-up artists and costumers followed Karabas around the playground. To keep the long beard from getting tangled, it was fastened with hairpins. The magnificent costumes of the heroes are the merit of the artist Nadezhda Vasilyeva, perhaps the main specialist in this field in Russia. Each outfit is a composite one. There's hand-knitting, like Artemon's jacket, and embroidery appliques, like Harlequino's, and handmade shoes, and the layered rags of street musicians, in which you can see high fashion.
As if from the paintings of the early 19th century, Alice the Fox has flirty boots. And a red felted wool skirt, a fitted jacket with lace trim, and an antique flirty umbrella in her hands. Makeup artists did not put ears on the actress to create the image of a fox: they made them out of hair.
The new film will feature a legendary soundtrack, with Rybnikov himself making a new arrangement for the hits from The Adventures of Pinocchio. In addition, the composer wrote a unique musical arrangement for the film.
The atmosphere of vibrant theatrical performances, the underwater world of Tortilla, hypnosis in the Land of Fools, dancing with dolls on the Town Hall Square — I really want to wait to see all this on the big screen. The film will be released in wide distribution on January 1, 2026, the distributor is NMG Film Distribution.
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