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The Hobbit (1985 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Hobbit' (, full title 'The Fabulous Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit, Across the Wild Land, Through the Dark Forest, Beyond the Misty Mountains. There and Back Again'; ) is a 1985 Soviet television play, being a loose adaption of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 book 'The Hobbit' by Vladimir Latyshev.
The play featured Zinovy Gerdt as "the professor" (a narrator stand-in for Tolkien), as Bilbo Baggins, Anatoly Ravikovich as Thorin Oakenshield and Igor Dmitriev as Gollum. Smaug and the Mirkwood spiders were portrayed by puppets. Missing in this version are the trolls, Elrond, Beorn and the wood-elves. The goblins are human-like with little makeup, and were portrayed by dancers from the Leningrad State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, as are the inhabitants of Lake Town.
The play was shot in 1984 as a teleplay and produced in the framework of the children's TV series 'Tale after Tale' (') aired at the Leningrad TV Channel in the 1980s and the 1990s. It has also appeared on DVD, although the TV and DVD versions each contain material that the other does not. No subtitles were included, but fan-made subtitles have since appeared.
Cast
* Zinovy Gerdt narrator (J. R. R. Tolkien)
* Bilbo Baggins
* Ivan Krasko Gandalf
* Igor Dmitriev Gollum
* Anatoly Ravikovich Thorin Oakenshield
* Kli
* Mikhail Kuznetsov Fli
* Balin
* Nikolai Gavrilov Dwalin
* Kirill Dateshidze Dori
* Vladimir Kozlov Nori
* Ori
* Yuri Zatravkin Glin
* Vladimir Lelyotko in
* Mikhail Khrabrov Bofur
* Yuri Ovsyanko Bifur
* Alexander Isakov Bombur
* Bard the Bowman
* dragon Smaug
* Vladimir Martianov spider (voice)
* Igor Muravyov spider (voice)
* leader of the goblins
* Leonard Sekirin goblin
* Alexander Slanksnis goblin
Versions
The film exists in at least two official versions, in each of which there are episodes that appear only in that version. The timing of the versions differs by 50 seconds.
See also
*Adaptations of 'The Hobbit'
* 'Khraniteli'
References
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