Guillermo del Toros Pinocchio Afdah . The action of the plot of this cartoon takes place in the 1930s in fascist Italy. At the beginning of this story, we are introduced to the same sad Geppetto, a lonely woodcarver whose life was devastated during the First World War. Once he had a son, they played together, sang, laughed and had a good time, until a bomb dropped on the small Italian village where they lived ended the boy's life, leaving Geppetto alone in his grief and with a wound in his heart. Two decades later, the carpenter Geppetto, at the peak of his tragic suffering, decides to make a puppet. By cutting down a special tree for him, he creates a doll, which the Blue Fairy gives life. She also orders Cricket to serve as the conscience of this creaking wooden boy, who is given the name Pinocchio. The wooden boy, having turned into a living creature, turns out to have a great curiosity for the world. With narrator Sebastian working on his memoirs, Pinocchio begins to learn abou...