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Sagan om ringen (1971)

Sagan om ringen poster
Directed by
Bo Hansson
Genre
fantasy, tv movie
Country
Sweden
Runtime
28 min
Rating
2.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This Swedish TV film mixes live actors with hand drawn backgrounds. It reimagines the story from the Lord of the Rings novel through the lens of a music album inspired by it.

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What happens

Sagan om ringen is a 1971 Swedish live action television film in two episodes. The film was inspired by the music album Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings by Bo Hansson, which in turn was inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien's 1954 novel The Lord of the Rings. Live actors were filmed and inserted into hand drawn backgrounds. Drawings were made by Peter Lindblom. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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