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Turli’s Adventures
Original title: Turlis Abenteuer
children's film - GDR, 1967, color, 75 min.
feature film, animated film, fairytale, marionette film, non fiction animation, literature

Director Walter Beck
Producer DEFA Feature Film Studios
Script Margot Beichler, Gudrun Rammler, Walter Beck
Based Upon motives of the narrative by Carlo Collodi: "The Adventures of Pinocchio"
Camera Günter Haubold, Wolfgang Braumann (2. Kamera) Music Gerhard Wohlgemuth, Es singen: Roswitha Trexler, Manfred Krug
Stills Dietram Kleist, Herbert Kroiss Poster Art H. Grützner

Cast
Martin Flörchinger (Kasimir, Spielzeugmacher), Alfred Müller (Muriel, Eselshändler), Vera Oelschlegel (Mirzilla, eine Füchsin), Peter Pollatschek (Eusebius, ein Kater), Marianne Wünscher (Euphrosina, eine gute Fee), Martin Hellberg (Eisenbeiss, Puppentheater-Direktor), Herwart Grosse (Merkauf, Lehrer), Helmut Schreiber (Peitschenknall, Zirkusdirektor), Harald Popig (Malte, Fischer), Hans Hardt-Hardtloff (Karsten, Fischer), Jürgen Marten (Ein Vater), Detlef Wolf (Pippifax, ein Schüler), Carola Zschockelt (Pudel, Bote der Fee), Gestaltung und Führung der Puppen: Prager Marionettentheater "Spejbl und Hurvinek" (Klara Hakenova, Milos Haken, Radko Haken u.a.)

Voices
Gina Presgott, Fritz Decho, Lutz Friedrich, Robert Hanke, Theo Mack, Günter Ott, Olaf Berndt, Manfred Kaufmann

Synopsis
Right when beginning to carve, the piece of limewood starts giggling. As soon as the toy maker Kasimir finished carving the puppet, it becomes alive and is up to much puerility. Kasimir names the boy after his best friend, the director of a puppet theatre Arturo Eisenbein, and lovingly calls him Turli. Kasimir sends his son to school but not without telling him first not to stray from the path. But Turli does not get far. First he frees a puppet Punch and a princess and thus causes great confusion in the theatre. When good-hearted Turli is captured by the fox and the cat, introducing themselves as Baroness Mirzilla of Scare-Hare and Count Eusebius of Sharp-Teeth, he strays far from his path. The two of them work for the shady donkey dealer Muriel who lures many children into Playalways Land. While father Kasimir is disappointed in his son and considers him wayward and unkind, the good fairy Euphrosina with her white poodle keeps an eye on little Turli.

The charming Pinocchio version is an unusual interaction between actors and puppets from the Prague puppet theatre “Spejbl and Hurvinek”. Gina Presgott is the voice of Turli, the co-founder of the cabaret “Die Distel” (The Thistle) in Berlin is also the German voice of Shirley Temple and Giulietta Masina.