The Keepers

Soviet live-action film adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring, aired once in 1991 by Leningrad Television and then thought lost. It was rediscovered in 2021. It includes scenes of Tom Bombadil and the Barrow-wight omitted from Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

Cast: Georgiy Shtil, Viktor Kostetsky, Valeriy Dyachenko, Vladimir Matveev, Vadim Nikitin, Sergey Shelgunov, Liliyan Malkina, Sergei Parshin

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.