The Darling family children receive a visit from Peter Pan, who takes them to Never Never Land where an ongoing war with the evil Pirate Captain Hook is taking place.
Production
Sets look like they were built in someone's garage with patriotic pride.
Costume
Hook's outfit serves cursed energy you cannot unsee.
Director
Leonid Nechayev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1987 Soviet TV adaptation was part of a state effort to translate Western children's classics through socialist-realist aesthetics, resulting in a uniquely bizarre cultural artifact.
Lembit Ulfsak, who plays Mr. Darling, was a celebrated Estonian actor who later became a prominent political figure — making this his most surreal early work.
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