Russian Lord of the Rings

[BJade]

If anyone wants to see a Soviet era version of The Lord of the Rings, then you're in luck, a rediscovered version has been posted on youtube :eek:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56641258

[Caycedilla]

:lol: sorry jmo but this looks like a cheesy bad soap opera show

[Karalectric]

the costumes seem to have been assembled from all leningrad theatres that ever staged a play by shakespeare or lope de vega, which is why gandalf looks like a knight errant and why elrond pinched his outfit from othello. Aragorn looks like he crawled out of a leningrad rubbish tip. Sam has four eyebrows for some reason, while the puppet eagle which carries gandalf to safety looks like a seagull that drank aviation fuel - maybe that's why it flies like that? Oh and i was impressed by the idea of having caliban from the tempest play gollum.

omg sounds amazing

[BJade]

Haha yeah it's either so bad it's somehow good, or just bad lol

I think might be possible do better school play

[lliam]

Most of all, it's old. Very old.

Today's Russian productions are completely different.

[jasondrums]

The Shire dance party that gets rolling at the 3:30 mark is really something.

[Daughter of Artemis]

Would have been very disappointed if that was my only version.... but fun to watch.