8.561 minSeason 1 • Episode 3
LatestYoung Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Acting
Oleg Borisov's Silver: theatrical, menacing, weirdly tender.
Production
Soviet TV budget making do with pure ambition and cardboard ships.
Fyodor Stukov
Jim Hawkins
Oleg Borisov
John Silver - sea pirate
Viktor Kostetsky
Dr. Livesey
Vladislav Strzhelchik
Squire Trelawney
Konstantin Grigorev
captain Smollett
Leonid Markov
«Billy Bones» - sea pirate
Georgiy Teykh
«Blind Pew» - sea pirate
Olga Volkova
Mrs. Hawkins
Valeriy Zolotukhin
«Ben Gunn» - sea pirate
Nikolai Karachentsov
«Black Dog» - sea pirate
Gennadiy Yukhtin
Israel Hands - boatswain
Georgiy Shtil
O'Brien - sea pirate
Vladimir Vorobyov
George Merry - sea pirate
Geliy Sysoev
«Fierce Harry» - sea pirate
Konstantin Vorobyov
Dick Johnson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Oleg Borisov was already a Soviet cinema legend; he reportedly hated the wig but loved the role.
This 1982 miniseries aired during Brezhnev's final years, when state TV prioritized 'accessible classics' over political messaging—making it oddly pure escapism.
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