The Bremen Town Musicians Movie Details:
Original title | Bremenskie muzykanty |
Also known as | Бременские музыканты |
Based on | Soyuzmultfilm’s The Bremen Town Musicians and “Town Musicians of Bremen” by the Brothers Grimm |
Country | Russia |
Language | Russian |
Genre | Adventure, Comedy, Family |
Release date | December 18, 2023 (Karo 11 October) January 1, 2024 (Russia) |
Running time | 1hr 55min |
Starring | Tikhon Zhiznevsky Valentina Lyapina Sergey Burunov Mariya Aronova Konstantin Khabensky Askar Nigamedzyanov Irina Gorbacheva Roman Kurtsyn Dmitri Dyuzhev |
Directed by | Aleksey Nuzhnyy |
Written by | Aleksey Nuzhnyy Igor Grinyakin |
Produced by | Leonid Vereshchagin Anton Zlatopolsky Nikita Mikhalkov Aleksey Nuzhnyy |
Cinematography by | Igor Grinyakin |
Edited by | Kirill Piskarev |
Music by | Gennady Gladkov Maxim Fadeev Yuri Entin |
Production Company | Studio TriTe Russia-1 Soyuzmultfilm Central Partnership Productions Sber (general partner) Cinema Fund |
Distributor | Central Partnership |
The Bremen Town Musicians Movie Cast & Characters:
- Tikhon Zhiznevsky as the Troubadour
- Miron Provorov as the Troubadour as a child
- Valentina Lyapina as the Princess
- Sergey Burunov as the Silly King
- Mariya Aronova as Louise, the Atamansha and a gang of robbers
- Konstantin Khabensky as the Detective
- Yulia Peresild as the Troubadour’s mother
- Teresa Diuro as Afro girl
- Santa Nuzhnaya as Sp
Anthropomorphic Animals
- Askar Nigamedzyanov as the Rooster
- Irina Gorbacheva as the Cat
- Roman Kurtsyn as the Dog
- Dmitri Dyuzhev as the Donkey
Storyline:
The troubadour and his impostor friends – a Dog, a Cat, a Donkey and a narcissistic Rooster – teamed up to accomplish the feat. The wandering musicians, led by a new leader, will rally again to bring laughter and joy back to the gloomy streets of Bremen. First of all, they must make the King’s daughter laugh, but meeting the Princess threatens a dangerous adventure. T… Read all
The Bremen Town Musicians Movie Budget & Box Office Collection:
Budget | ₽1.200 billion |
Worldwide Collection | ₽3.035 billion $33.7 million |
About The Bremen Town Musicians Movie:
The Bremen Town Musicians (Russian: Бременские музыканты, romanized: Bremenskiye muzykanty) is a Russian musical film based on the fairy tale of the same name by the Brothers Grimm.
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, 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. The music and songs for the film were written by Maxim Fadeev together with Gennady Gladkov.
Principal photography began in the summer of 2023, taking place in the Republic of Dagestan, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, the Chechen Republic, the Republic of Ingushetia and the forests near Moscow region until August 2023. Two months before filming, a set of 100 houses, a city wall and a castle was built.
The Bremen Town Musicians held its world premiere took place on December 18, 2023, at the Karo 11 October cinema center on New Arbat Avenue in Moscow. On December 24, a special screening will take place at the Aurora cinema in Saint Petersburg, where the film will be presented by Zhiznevsky.
The film was released in the Russian Federation on January 1, 2024, including in the premium CosMAX format.