George Emilevich Yungvald-Khilkevich has 23 directing works in cinema, but most remember and love him mostly as the author of "our three musketeers". And how did it happen that he became the director of the film based on one of the most popular books in the world?
For Khilkevich, everything began in childhood, when, due to a leg injury, he became ill with osteomyelitis. He was then only 14 years old. For 4 years, the future director lay in a cast from heel to underarms and the only outlet for a bedridden teenager was books. Hoffmann, Andersen, Galsworthy and Dumas are the favorite writers of a sick child. Their works actually did not let him go crazy. And one of the main books in those years was for him an old, rubbed on the corners book on the cover of which was written "Three Musketeers"
Later, when Georgy Emilevich had already finished the Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Directors and became one of the directors of the Odessa Film Studio, the dream of making a film based on this book did not leave him. And so, in 1977, she was destined to come true - they decided on television to make a TV movie about musketeers and offered it to Yungvald-Khilkevich
He agreed with delight. But his fervor subsided greatly when he was given the script. It was a script not based on the book by Dumas, but from the musical by Mark Rozovsky and Yuri Ryashentsev, written based on the famous book. The performance of this play by that time for several years was successfully walking on the stage of the Theater for Young People. Here are just a director, he categorically did not suit.
Khilkevich sat down for remaking the script. He shoveled a huge amount of all sorts of literature about that era, trying to rewrite and at least slightly change the script assigned to him.
How did it all end? Judgment! When the picture was already taken and was ready to go on the screens. Rozovsky and Ryashentsev filed a lawsuit against Khilkevich, accusing him of unauthorized alteration of the script and appropriation of their share of the fee. True, the court they lost - Yungvald-Khilkevich did not covet the fee. His name is not in the credits in the co-authors of the script and he did not pretend to be his authorship. Later, in an interview, the director told time and again that he didn’t like this film of his own - it was too hard for him
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In preparing the material, the memories of director George Yungvald-Khilkevich from the book “Behind the Scenes”, as well as photographs from the personal archives of G. Yungvald-Khilkevich, N. Vashchilin and A. Yakimchuk were used
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