The return of the musketeers

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German title The return of the musketeers
Original title The Return of the Musketeers
Country of production Great Britain , France , Spain
original language English
Publishing year 1989
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Richard Lester
script George MacDonald Fraser
production Pierre Spengler
music Jean-Claude Petit
camera Bernard Lutic
cut John Victor Smith
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The Four Musketeers - The Revenge of Milady

The Return of the Musketeers is the last cloak-and-sword film in a trilogy by US director Richard Lester from 1989. It ends the stories from " The Three Musketeers " (1973) and " The Four Musketeers - The Revenge of the." My Lady "(1974). As in the previous films, Michael York , Oliver Reed , Frank Finlay and Richard Chamberlain play the "four musketeers".

The film was based on the literary model "Twenty Years Later" ( Vingt ans après ) by Alexandre Dumas and Lester, with the almost similar age difference as in the novel, succeeded in getting the main actors from the first film to be involved again for this film.

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D'Artagnan is still with the Musketeers , but no longer with those of the king, but with Cardinal Mazarin ( Philippe Noiret ). From this he received the order to travel to England and to prevent the execution of the English king Charles I. Mazarin fears that the popular uprising in England could spill over to France and remove him from actual power in the state.

D'Artagnan decides to reactivate his old friends, who have withdrawn into private life, for this assignment. Only with Aramis, who has meanwhile become a priest and even the confessor of Queen Anna , does he not succeed. Aramis is secretly a supporter of the French rebel Duke v. Beaufort , and it turns out that Athos also sympathizes with him.

On her dangerous mission , Justine, the daughter of Milady de Winter , who was executed on behalf of Athos, follows her trail. In England the musketeers succeed in incapacitating the king's executioner, but a mysterious stranger carries out the execution instead. D'Artagnan discovers that none other than Justine de Winter was tucked under the executioner's robe. A plot to murder the musketeers that Justine had hatched together with Oliver Cromwell , they escape on the return trip to France. Meanwhile, the cardinal has kidnapped the 10-year-old king , while Beaufort has managed to get back into grace with Queen Anna. The musketeers raid the cardinal's hiding place and force him to make extensive concessions, both personal and political.

Literature template

  • Alexandre Dumas: Twenty Years Later , Structure Paperback Publishing 1995 - ISBN 3-7466-1153-9

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  • The cast of D'Artagnan's servant Planchet , Roy Kinnear , fell from his horse while filming and died of his injuries. His role therefore had to be taken over by another actor in some scenes. Director Lester dedicated the film to him and ended his film career as a consequence of the tragic accident.
  • Jean-Pierre Cassel , who played the French King Louis XIII in the other two Lester films . played a guest role as Cyrano de Bergerac in this production .
  • Although the main and supporting actors were the same as in the two previous films by Richard Lester (Reed, York, Chamberlain, Finlay, Lee, Kinnear, Chaplin), completely different voice actors were employed for the German version than in the versions of the first two films. However, the German speakers for the four male leading roles had already been completely exchanged between the first and the second film.
  • The role of Rochefort reappeared, although he had already been killed by the end of the second film.

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