The Bremen Town Musicians (2023 film)

The Bremen Town Musicians
RussianBremenskiye muzykanty
Directed byAleksey Nuzhnyy
Written by
  • Aleksey Nuzhnyy
  • Igor Grinyakin (ru)
Based onSoyuzmultfilm's The Bremen Town Musicians and "Town Musicians of Bremen"
by the Brothers Grimm
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyIgor Grinyakin
Edited byKirill Piskarev
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed byCentral Partnership
Release dates
  • December 18, 2023 (2023-12-18) (Karo 11 October)
  • January 1, 2024 (2024-01-01) (Russia)
Running time
116 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian
Budget₽1.200 billion
Box office
  • ₽3.035 billion[1]
  • $34.5 million[2]

The Bremen Town Musicians (Russian: Бременские музыканты, romanized: Bremenskiye muzykanty) is a 2023 Russian musical fantasy 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 and its 1973 sequel On the Trail of the Bremen Town Musicians, produced by the 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.

  1. ^ Box Office, Russian Cinema Fund`s Analytics (RCFA). Accessed December 20, 2023.
  2. ^ "The Bremen Town Musicians (2024)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
  3. ^ Вышел трейлер "Бременских музыкантов" с Жизневским, Хабенским и Буруновым
  4. ^ Kallinikov, Kirill (December 6, 2022). "Дюжев сыграет осла в мюзикле "Бременские музыканты"" [Dyuzhev will play a donkey in the musical The Bremen Town Musicians]. RIA Novosti (in Russian). Retrieved December 22, 2023.