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Old 11th April 2021, 06:32 PM
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Watch lord of the rings Soviet Union style .

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/4...J9ByrGzmSf-Qoo

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The long-lost Lord of the Rings adaptation from Soviet Russia is a glorious fever

Like found footage from a hobbit’s camcorder


The 1991 made-for-TV film features glorious low budget special effects and shonky costumes.
You may think you’re familiar with The Lord of the Rings, but nothing can quite prepare you for an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic fantasy text made in the Soviet Union.


The made-for-TV film first aired on Leningrad Television in 1991 and was thought to be lost to time, as first reported by The Guardian. But the station’s successor, 5TV, recently unearthed a copy from its archives, and uploaded the entire work to YouTube in two parts.

LOW BUDGET SPECIAL EFFECTS AND SOVIET MOOD MUSIC
With a running time of around 1 hour and 50 minutes, this adaptation focuses only on the first book of Tolkein’s trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, and is a riot of low-budget special effects, bizarre camera work, and Soviet mood music.

Rather than the epic Hollywood fantasy captured so well by Peter Jackson, this adaptation feels like a weird fairy tale told by a pipe-smoking madman in the woods. In other words: it captures a completely legitimate aspect of The Lord of the Rings, just not one we’re necessarily used to.
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