The three musketeers (2005)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The three musketeers |
| Original title | D'Artagnan et les trois mousquetaires |
| Country of production | France , Canada , Great Britain , Czech Republic |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 180 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pierre Aknine |
| script | Pierre Aknine, Gérard Walraevens |
| production | Jean-Pierre Guérin |
| music | Matt Dunkley |
| camera | Allen Smith |
| cut | Thierry Rouden |
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The Three Musketeers ( D'Artagnan et les trois mousquetaires ) is a French adventure film / miniseries in 2 parts by Pierre Aknine from 2005. It is a film adaptation of the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas the Elder .
action
D'Artagnan goes to Paris to become a royal musketeer . On the way he gets to know Athos, Porthos and Aramis. He falls in love with Constance Bonacieux, a lady-in-waiting to Queen Anne.
Milady Winter plots an intrigue to expose Queen Anne, who is having an affair with an English prince. While the prince is in Paris, he is attacked by ten masked fighters led by my lady. D'Artagnan successfully defends him. Since the prince could not be captured, Cardinal de Richelieu has to tell the king that the suspicion of the queen's infidelity is unfounded. However, he persuades the king to organize a ball in honor of the queen. At the ball the queen is supposed to wear the necklace that the king gave her. The Queen gave the necklace to her lover, who has meanwhile returned to England.
The names of the newly admitted corps members are read out in the courtyard of the Musketeers' barracks. D'Artagnan is comforted by his friends - in case his name should not be read out. A white dove sits down near the officer reading the names. D'Artagnan laughs, shortly afterwards his name is mentioned.
When the king announces to his wife that he wants to see her at the ball with the necklace, she smiles. Shortly thereafter, she passed out. She later reveals to Bonacieux that she is afraid of being chased from the court and of having to go to a monastery. Bonacieux turns to D'Artagnan for help.
D'Artagnan asks his commanding officer to give him two weeks' leave to get the necklace back for the queen. He tells the officer that if he fails, the more powerful Cardinal de Richelieu could end the careers of the officers of the royal musketeers.
D'Artagnan and his friends leave. They are pursued by the cardinal's soldiers, who stop Athos, Porthos and Aramis. The musketeers save the queen's honor.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote: "The predominantly true-to-the-original film adaptation of the novel largely avoids the cheerful aspects of earlier adaptations and aims to accommodate today's tastes with the slight" mystery touch "of the story of Lady De Winter and fight scenes à la" Matrix "."
The website www.zelluloid.de praised the “elaborate” staging and the “top-class” cast.
On VideoWoche.de it was said: “A bit of getting used to TV two-part, which as an ingredient in addition to Alexandre Dumas' classic also has a good portion of black magic in the form of the possessed Mylady De Winter. Once this has been accepted, Emmanuelle Béart makes the evil intriguer quite acceptable. From the German side, Heino Ferch takes up his sword as Athos. "
The website www.cineastentreff.de wrote: “With his version of the“ Three Musketeers ”, director and co-author Pierre Aknine created a captivating work in 2004, which with the breathtaking landscape shots, the equipment and the contemporary costumes in exactly the right place Mood shifted. The atmosphere of the DVD does the rest: The pompous music usual in historical epics gives you goose bumps. The clanking swords during fights and the hooves of the trotting horses create an effective sound. The real-looking colors of the images as well as contrast and sharpness values achieve high TV quality. "
background
The film was shot in England , the Czech Republic , France and Montreal ( Canada ). It premiered on January 22nd in French-speaking Switzerland , on February 6th, 2005 in Belgium and on February 14th, 2005 on French television.
Originally a two-part television film with a total of around 180 minutes, only a heavily shortened one-part version was shown on German television on ZDF.
Co-producers of the film were ZDF and ORF.
literature
- Alexandre Dumas : The Three Musketeers . Roman (original title: Les trois mousquetaires ). German by August Zoller , revised by Michaela Meßner. With an afterword by Joachim Schultz. New edition. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag (dtv), Munich 2009, 747 pages, ISBN 978-3-423-13766-9
Web links
- The Three Musketeers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The three musketeers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 17, 2018 .
- ↑ The three musketeers. In: Zelluloid.de. Archived from the original on January 25, 2018 ; accessed on September 17, 2018 .
- ↑ VideoWoche.de
- ↑ www.cineastentreff.de ( Memento from July 22, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Filming locations for D'Artagnan et les trois mousquetaires
- ↑ Start dates for D'Artagnan et les trois mousquetaires