Dva musketyri
Czechoslovakia,
1964, 82 min
Shown in 1964
CREDITS
- dir
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Karel Zeman
- prod
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Vaclav Dobes, Ruzena Hulinska, Jiri Maras
- scr
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Karel Zeman, Pavel Jurácek
- cam
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Václav Hunka, Bohuslav Pikhart
- editor
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Miroslav Hájek
- mus
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Jan Novák
- cast
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Petr Kostka, Miroslav Holub, Emílie Vásáryová, Valentina Thielová, Eduard Kohout, Karel Effa, Jirí Holy
- prod co
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Ceskoslovensky Státní Film; Filmové Studio Barrandov
- source
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Gottwaldov
- gga award
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Best Film; Best Director, Karel Zeman: Feature Length Films
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COMMENTS
Karel Zeman in person.
OTHER
This historical antiwar romance is set during the period of the Thirty Years War. The action starts in 1625 when press-gangs rounded up reluctant young men and put them into the army, where they fought and often died in a cause that was not their own. This story concerns two young men, one named Petr who is pressed into the army and manages to escape—for a time. It is also the story of the man who pressed Petr into service and who didn't care which side of the war he fought on himself so long as he could fight. He considers Petr a fool, so this is a fool's chronicle, but which was the fool and which was the wise man, only you, the audience, can tell. Many of you have fought in wars; all of you have thought about them for many years. Some people say there are no good wars, others say there are just wars and unjust wars. But Petr was a character.
—Alvah Bessie
FACTOID #134
The 1986 San Francisco International’s Discovering Mike Leigh was the director’s first retrospective in the U.S. According to the San Francisco Examiner, Festival Artistic Director Peter Scarlet compared the then-unknown Leigh to Yasujiro Ozu before his work had achieved international recognition; while the latter director had been considered ’too Japanese’ for global audiences, Leigh was considered ’too British.’
