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The Adventures of Pinocchio (Italian: Le avventure di Pinocchio) is a 1972 Italian miniseries directed by Luigi Comencini. Based on the Carlo Collodi's novel with the same name, the miniseries got a large critical success, and had an average of twenty-one and a half million viewers during its first airing on Rai 1. A 135-minute edit of the miniseries was released to theatrical film markets in Europe the same year.

Plot

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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. The puppet is Pinocchio. On night, a Fairy visits the carpenter's shop to see Pinocchio. The woman makes a deal with the puppet: if he behaves well, honoring his father in the process, he will become a human being, otherwise he will remain a piece of wood. Pinocchio promises, and magically becomes a kid. But the temptations of life are many, and Pinocchio runs away from home, instead of going to school, like his father Geppetto wants, and he enters illegally in the company of puppets of the cruel Mangiafuoco. Pinocchio, helped by the Fairy, tries to be kind and respectful, but by his brat character, he always finds himself in the midst of trouble...