[ExI] Soviet TV version of Lord of the Rings rediscovered after 30 years

[Darin Sunley]

It reminds me of Greek theatre in a way.

They never let limitations on budget or personnel limit what they wanted to
put on stage.

"Ok, the script calls for Zeus to open up several light-years wide rifts in
the fabric of space and time and literally flood the entire Local Group
with heavenly waters".
"Cool, what are our resources?"
"Fifteen actors, five of whom can sing, and ten square feet of plywood."
"Awesome, put the singers in the Chorus, and let's do this!"

On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 4:10 AM John Grigg via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> How cool!  :  )
>
> "A Soviet television adaptation of The Lord of the Rings
> <https://www.theguardian.com/film/lord-of-the-rings> thought to have been
> lost to time was rediscovered and posted on YouTube last week, delighting
> Russian-language fans of JRR Tolkien.
>
> The 1991 made-for-TV film, Khraniteli, based on Tolkien’s The Fellowship
> of the Ring, is the only adaptation of his Lord of the Rings trilogy
> believed to have been made in the Soviet Union.
>
> Aired 10 years before the release of the first instalment of Peter
> Jackson’s movie trilogy, the low-budget film appears ripped from another
> age: the costumes and sets are rudimentary, the special effects are
> ludicrous, and many of the scenes look more like a theatre production than
> a feature-length film.
>
> The score, composed by Andrei Romanov of the rock band Akvarium, also
> lends a distinctly Soviet ambience to the production, which was reportedly
> aired just once on television before disappearing into the archives of
> Leningrad Television."
>
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/05/soviet-tv-version-lord-of-the-rings-rediscovered-after-30-years
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