The geniuses at Leningrad Television put out this masterpiece in 1991, a full ten years before Peter Jackson.
Cue up Gandalf’s eagle escape and elaboration at the Council of Elrond:
The above includes the entire first half of this 1 hr 50 minute extravaganza. More Fellowship of The Ring excitement here.
This is unbelievable. Soviet televison doing Monty Python doing a LOTR done by Soviet television.
While traveling in that area many years ago I once had the good fortune of tuning in to a Soviet Central Television airing of Bonanza very badly dubbed into Russian.
This production exemplifies all the best things associated with good old fashioned Russian pluck.
But it’s still shit.