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Year of Production 2013

Pinocchio

English title: Pinocchio
Original title: Pinocchio
German title: Pinocchio
Germany, 2013

Director: Justice, Anna
Production company: FP New Media
Co-producers: ARD, WDR
Age recommendation: 6 years and up

Synopsis:
One day, poor old toymaker Geppetto finds a piece of pine-wood. He carves it into a puppet, which he names Pinocchio. Geppetto is delighted, when his puppet suddenly comes to life, but Pinocchio is full of reckless whims and wild ideas. Before long, his crazy escapades cause considerable damage in the village, causing big problems for Geppetto – who loses his temper with his "son". Pinocchio runs away from home and winds up in a series of madcap adventures: He meets the puppeteer Mangiafuoco, who almost throws him into the fire; he is tricked by two petty gangsters, the Fox and the Cat; he is abducted and transformed into a donkey by an evil coachman – and then sold to a circus-owner, who wants to turn him into salami. Meanwhile, Geppetto is searching desperately for Pinocchio, and ends up being swallowed by a whale. But at the end of a long, adventurous journey, Pinocchio – having learned how to be considerate and courageous – manages to rescue his "father" from the whale and becomes a real boy.

Comments:
Based on Carlo Collodi's world-famous stories. Partly animated.

Festivals:
Tokyo Kinder Film Festival 2014, , Cinekid Amsterdam 2014, Schlingel Chemnitz 2014, Chicago CFF 2014

World sales address/es:
Global Screen (DE)