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Russian | Bremenskiye muzykanty |
Directed by | Aleksey Nuzhnyy |
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Based on | Soyuzmultfilm's The Bremen Town Musicians and "Town Musicians of Bremen" by the Brothers Grimm |
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Cinematography | Igor Grinyakin |
Edited by | Kirill Piskarev |
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Distributed by | Central Partnership |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
Country | Russia |
Language | Russian |
Budget | ₽1.200 billion |
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The Bremen Town Musicians (Russian: Бременские музыканты, romanized: Bremenskiye muzykanty) is a 2023 Russian musical film based on Brothers Grimm fairy tale Town Musicians of Bremen.
The film was directed by Aleksey Nuzhnyy, who co-wrote the script with Igor Grinyakin as co-author, is a live-action remake of Inessa Kovalevskaya's 1969 Soviet animated short film The Bremen Town Musicians produced by Soyuzmultfilm studio. It stars Tikhon Zhiznevsky as the title character, he tells the adventures of Troubadour, a group of traveling musicians,[3] alongside Askar Nigamedzyanov as the Rooster, Irina Gorbacheva as the Cat, Roman Kurtsyn as the Dog, and Dmitri Dyuzhev will try to play the Donkey.[4] The music and songs for the film were written by Maxim Fadeev together with Gennady Gladkov.
The Bremen Town Musicians premiered at the Karo 11 October in Moscow on December 18, 2023, and was theatrically released in Russia on January 1, 2024. It was released back-to-back with Central Partnership's Serf 2. The film grossed over 3 billion rubles at the box office and received mixed reviews from critics and audiences.