Gardes-Marines-III (film)

Gardes-Marines-III
Directed by Svetlana Druzhinina
Written by Yuri Nagibin
Svetlana Druzhinina
Nina Sorotokina
Starring Dmitry Kharatyan
Mikhail Mamaev
Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Kristina Orbakaitė
Music by Victor Lebedev
Cinematography Anatoly Mukasei
Production
company
Release date
 1992
Running time
 107 min.
Country USSR
Russia
Germany
Language Russian

Gardes-Marines-III or (Russian: Гардемарины-III, translit. Gardemariny III) is a 1992 Soviet two-series television movie (mini-series), the third of a series of films about Russian Gardes-Marines of the 18th century, directed by Svetlana Druzhinina.[1][2]

Plot

...1757 year. In Europe the smell of gunpowder grows more noticeable. Two militant alliances: England and Prussia on one side, and Austria, France and Russia on the other, are engaged in the bloody Seven Years' War.

Life separated the gardes-marines friends. Alexander Belov serves in Alaska, and Nikita Olenev – at the imperial court. Only Aleksei Korsak became captain of a ship. During a trip to Venice, Korsak rescues a shipwrecked man. The man is Baron von Brockdorf who serves in the Russian court, but in fact is a spy of King Frederick the Great, and also the lover of his wife, Prussian Queen Elizabeth-Christina. Brockdorf is arrested, but manages to escape, and now along with unsuspecting Korsak, he sails on a ship to Venice where the loving queen awaits him. In addition Duchess Joanna is located there, mother of Catherine. Several years ago on the orders of Bestuzhev, the duchess was banished from Russia for being a Prussian spy, but now she continues to faithfully serve Friedrich.

At this very time Nikita Olenev and his friend Pavel Gorin are traveling from distant Russia to Venice. Olenev, in love with Princess Fiquet from the moment of their acquaintance, performs a seemingly innocuous order of the Grand Duchess to hand over a box with jewellery to the Prussian queen. But in reality there is a hidden encrypted message in the box for Friedrich with the information that Empress Elizabeth is seriously ill, and the field-marshal Apraksin, commander-in-chief of the Russian troops in East Prussia, will only simulate the fighting, without joining the decisive battle with the Prussians. Pleased with this message, Joanna and Brockdorff write a reply message to Catherine, which again Nikita Olenev, the involuntary "courier" of Prussian espionage, must convey.

When the duchess learns that Brockdorf arrived in Venice on Korsak's ship, she decides to be safe and destroy Korsak. The attempt fails, but the young Russian captain is accused of murder and imprisoned. With the help of Olenev and Gorin, as well as vagrant Venetian artists, they manage to abduct Korsak from prison, and moreover, friends manage to capture Brockdorff and urgently leave for Russia. On the road the midshipmen find an encrypted letter for Catherine, and Brockdorf manages to break away and escape.

Arriving in St. Petersburg, Olenev, despite all his love for "Fiquet", honestly tells Catherine that he will report about the secret correspondence to Bestuzhev, having however acquainted the Grand Duchess with the contents of the letter. Summoned by Elizabeth for interrogation, Catherine, warned by Olenev, skillfully evades all charges of high treason and espionage, and the aging empress restricting herself only to verbal threats, releases Catherine. Of course, Elizabeth does not believe a single word of the Grand Duchess, but she clearly understands that only Catherine, and not her stupid and absurd husband – heir to the throne, Peter Fedorovich, will manage to rule such a huge and complex country as the Russian Empire.

Gardes-marines friends advance to the active army of Apraksin. Field-marshal, who received a direct order from the Empress to attack Friedrich's troops, still commits a dirty trick. Cavalry, the main power of the Russian army is sent away from the battlefield. Friedrich, knowing this, is confident of success and boasts to his generals that it is near Gross-Jägersdorf that he will destroy the "Russian bear". Initially the battle develops in favor of the Prussians, their cavalry mercilessly shreds the defenseless Russian infantry to pieces, which cries for help. In spite of Apraksin's strict prohibition, the midshipmen succeed in capturing the Russian cavalry for the attack of Friedrich's troops, and then a decisive turn comes in battle. The Prussian army is defeated, it flees, and the king himself almost falls into captivity. It would seem that success must be promoted and that the army should move directly to Berlin, but... Apraksin orders to retreat, and all the blood shed by Russians, all the casualties of this victorious battle turn out to be in vain...

Cast

Soundtrack

References

  1. ↑ "Гардемарины-3. Х/ф".
  2. ↑ "Премьера фильма "Гардемарины-III"". Kommersant. 20 November 1992.
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