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The Adventures of Pinocchio
Le avventure di Pinocchio
1972 · TV series · 63 min episodes · 1 season
ComedyFamilyKidsScience FictionFantasy
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and when trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastero Cherry, he decides to build himself a puppet to make him company.
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Not wanting to sound dismissal, but as Italian the real story of Pinocchio is the original story of Collodi's Pinocchio, that we are told and we read since we are little kids.
We have old sayings like "the land of toys (il paese dei balocchi) does not exists' or "if you do not study you'll end up like Pinocchio and Lucifer transformed into a donkey" that are directly taken from the book.
Also, a very popular adaptation of Pinocchio made for television [1], directed by one of the greatest Italian directors of the renown Italian comedy genre of the time and which is probably the most popular adaptation here in Italy, surely the most accurate, is very blatant about the need for education.
p.s. the tv show musical theme was popularized in the 90s by a dance remix [2] that was then remixed in all sort of styles, including techno and gaber
When my father was very young he was friend with Nino Manfredi, who plays Geppetto. they were born in two houses two kms apart from each other.
[1] https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_avventure_di_Pinocchio_(miniserie_televisiva)
[2] https://youtu.be/97IYO-P1V18
This [1] is a TV series I remember watching when I was a child, I can't remember how faithful is to the original story (at least I remember it having a shark instead of a whale) but I remember too being scary. I am not sure how easy is to find it and if there are any English subs for it though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Pinocchio_(1972_miniseries)