Kinopoisk 7.9 For the 40th anniversary of the premiere! Treasure Island is back on your screens! An extended version of the beloved film about adventures, pirates, treasure hunting - 100% romance! "Treasure Island" is a Soviet three-part television film, a screen version of the novel of the same name by R. L. Stevenson, the third of those created in the USSR after the films of 1937 and 1971. Filmed by director Vladimir Vorobyov at the Lenfilm studio. Young Jim Hawkins and his older friends Dr. Livesey and Squire Trelawney accidentally became the owners of Captain Flint's map, which indicates the coordinates of an island in the Atlantic Ocean where treasures are hidden. On the schooner Hispaniola they begin a dangerous voyage to a distant island, not realizing that John Silver, once Flint's quartermaster and now the leader of a gang of pirates, has gone with them to find the treasure, posing as the ship's cook. The film is an almost literal adaptation of the novel, sometimes using excerpts from other works by Stevenson - in particular, Billy Bones' story about the sea devil was taken from the story "The Jolly Fellows". Deviations from the author's text are made either due to technical limitations (in particular, the film does not feature the scene of Jim chasing the Hispaniola in a skiff), or to make the film more entertaining for a teenage audience (Black Dog, for example, is armed with a rope, which he skillfully throws at his opponents, Ben Gunn is armed with a blowgun; the scene of the storming of the fort is resolved in a comedic manner; the treasure is kept in a cave with skeletons, and not in a pit, and so on). At the same time, the ending of the film regarding the fate of John Silver differs from the novel: in the novel, Silver manages to escape, taking some of the treasure with him, while in the film, Ben Gunn accidentally kills him with a blowgun. There are 3 versions of the film - 220 minutes, 194 minutes and 183 minutes. The original version consisted of 4 episodes of 55 minutes each. In the 1980s, the film was censored twice and became a three-part series. Scenes of violence, gambling, images of dead bodies, and particularly scary moments were removed, taking into account the film's child audience. After the first edition, the following scenes were removed: a close-up of Blind Pew's face with a cork instead of an eye ("and now, boy, lead me to the captain!"); Dr. Livesey performing bloodletting on Billy Bones, Jim holding a basin into which blood begins to drip, the doctor's conversation with Billy Bones (see in the book); Dr. Livesey discussing the personalities of the pirate discoverers (the squire's estate); the squire's comment on the identity of the pirate killed by Redruth and who fell off a cliff in the scene of moving to the fort. After the second edition, the following scenes were removed: Billy Bones telling a scary story, at which time an owl flies across the room and scares the guests; Jim Hawkins's dream, where John Silver appears for the first time; a drunk Billy Bones coming down the stairs and throws two guests out of the table; Billy Bones sees Flint in the corner and begs Jim for rum; Blind Pew chases Jim along the coast, Jim falls, entangled in a net, Blind Pew reaches out to him; the death of Billy Bones (falls down the stairs, grabbing a fishing net); Jim searches Bones's body for a key, a hamster crawls over Bones's neck; Hands and O'Brien play cards "for knives" (the squire's arrival in Bristol); Hands and O'Brien play cards in the ship's cabin (Squire: "I'm locked up!"); Squire Trelawney in the cabin of the Hispaniola proposes a toast to Jim's health; Hunter found a skeleton under a blanket in the fort ("Dr. Livesey's intelligence"); the corpse of Hunter, torn apart by a bomb after the storming of the fort; carpenter Abraham Gray gives Jim a pistol; the beginning of a card game on the Hispaniola between Israel Hands and O'Brien, with each of them holding a card in their mouths; Jim bringing a bottle of brandy to Hands: "Thank you. Cheers, captain!"; Silver taking a sip from the bottle in the fort: "Want a drink? I'll take a sip. There's so much trouble ahead."; Silver examining the black mark and asking who gave the paper for it: "Who would give up their Bible for such a sacrilege?" Silver discussing Dick Pastor's shredded Bible: "Perhaps it's still good for communion? - The Bible? With a torn-out page?"; The original version of the film is currently unavailable. In 2012, a DVD with a "second version" of the film, 194 minutes long, was released in the Czech Republic. It is this 194-minute version that I am happy to share with you, friends! I have corrected the white balance, removed the green tint from all dark scenes, worked as best I could with noise and scratches