| Musketeers Twenty Years After | |
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| Directed by | Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich |
| Written by | Alexandre Dumas, père Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich Georgi Nikolayev |
| Produced by | Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich Oleg Batagov Yuri Kononchuk |
| Starring | Mikhail Boyarsky Veniamin Smekhov Igor Starygin Valentin Smirnitsky |
| Cinematography | Aleksandr Nosovsky[1] |
| Edited by | Irina Blogerman |
| Music by | Maksim Dunayevsky |
Production companies | Studio Ekran, Film-studio "Katran", Soviet-French enterprise "Moscow",Odessa Film Studio |
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Running time | 300 min. |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
Musketeers Twenty Years After (Russian:Мушкетёры двадцать лет спустя,translit. Mushketeri dvadsat' let spustya) is a four-episode Russianmusical film directed byGeorgi Yungvald-Khilkevich based onAlexandre Dumas' 1845 novelTwenty Years After.
Filming began in the summer of 1990 and took place in Tallinn, Leningrad and Odessa.[2] In August 1991, the main songs of the film, that were performed byIgor Nadzhiev, were recorded.[3] In 1992, editing and dubbing of the movie were completed. And in January 1993, the premiere took place on theChannel One Russia of Ostankino.
The previous film wasD'Artagnan and Three Musketeers. The next movie —The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers Thirty Years After.
Cardinal Mazarin demands fromAnne of Austria to reveal to him the names of four friends who once helped her in the confrontation againstCardinal Richelieu.
The Queen reveals the name of D'Artagnan, lieutenant of the royal musketeers.
The cardinal calls the musketeer and orders him to findAthos,Porthos andAramis in order to recruit them. However, only Porthos, who became a wealthy landowner du Vallon, agrees to join D'Artagnan. Athos and Aramis are on the side of theFronde, hostile to the cardinal and led by the Duke of Beaufort, imprisoned in theChâteau de Vincennes.
The convergence of old friends, separated by political intrigues, occurs when Mordaunt, the son of Lady Winter, decides to take revenge on the Musketeers for the death of his mother.
Four friends get involved with him, as well as with M. de Jussac, their old enemy, who joined Mordaunt, in the fight.
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