The Return of Musketeers or the Treasure of Cardinal Mazarini 2009

The film opens by revisiting the closing moment of The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, the classic Alexandre Dumas tale, and it drops us into a world where fate soon tests a new generation. The two musketeers Aramis Igor Starygin and Porthos Valentin Smirnitskiy meet a brutal end in a clash with royal guardsmen, the sort of moment that reshapes a country’s memory. After sensing their deaths, Athos Venyamin Smekhov cannot bear the grief and chooses to end his own life, taking poison in the quiet solitude of his own estate. The losses cascade: the seasoned trio who once moved as a unified force are gone in an instant, leaving behind a void that France struggles to fill.

Meanwhile, on the battlefield, d’Artagnan Mikhail Boyarskiy continues to rise through the ranks amid the Franco-Dutch War, and the legends surrounding him begin to feel almost prophetic. As Athos once foresaw during the Siege of La Rochelle, d’Artagnan ascends to the rank of Marshal of France, a pinnacle reached just as danger and destiny align to pull him into one final, fatal moment at Maastricht, where a cannonball seals his fate just after he finally clutches the cherished baton. The loss of so many heroes in one day leaves the kingdom adrift, its skies dark with grief and its political world unsettled.

A muddled France struggles under the weight of treachery and misdeed. In Parliament, fierce debates erupt over a treasury heist that points backward to Cardinal Mazarin, who is quietly implicated as the true mastermind behind the disappearance of royal wealth. The people and their representatives lay blame at the feet of Queen Anne of Austria, a monarch who has long stood in Mazarin’s circle, and with the old guards of virtue gone, the queen finds herself in need of defenders. Into this breach step the children of the musketeers: Jacline Lyanka Gryu, daughter of d’Artagnan; Raoul, son of Athos; Henri Anton Makarsky, son of Aramis; and Angelica Irina Pegova, daughter of Porthos. The newly formed quartet looks to restore honor and balance to a nation teetering on the edge of scandal, and even Leon the captain of the Royal Guards, initially wary, discovers a surprising kinship when he learns he is the son of Porthos.

As the old world fades, a deeper treasure comes to light. When Mazarin dies in England, his wealth passes to the Society of Jesus, carried along with the legendary Templar Ring that is said to grant immortality according to centuries-old legends. The young heirs devise a plan to reclaim the French fortune and restore the queen’s honor, but their mission quickly lands them in the hands of those who would see them fail. Raoul falls in a starkly unequal clash, and the children find themselves captured as the shadows of their fathers loom over them with both hope and warning.

Yet the moral center of the film endures: a heartfelt prayer from d’Artagnan, spoken from beyond the grave, stirs the souls of his descendants and their fathers, offering a second chance to set things right. This moment blurs the line between life and afterlife, as the barrier between generations dissolves and the living heroism of the older musketeers returns to guide the new line of defenders. The revived resolve catalyzes a perilous return to the present, and the narrative tightens around the shared quest to retrieve the treasure and defend the queen’s honor.

The confrontation rekindles a fierce duel of wits and courage as the sworn enemy de Jussac returns, seemingly risen alongside the others to pursue the same prize. The stakes grow ever higher as the children fight not only for France’s wealth but for the legacy of their fathers—the bond that once made the four musketeers nearly invincible. The drama balances intimate family ties with national duty, weaving together personal grief, daring escapades, and political intrigue into a tapestry that asks whether a new generation can live up to the legend that began long before they were born.

By the film’s conclusion, the children stand renewed with their parents, the Jesuits’ treacherous schemes are defeated, and the queen’s honor is secured once more. What began as a sequence of crushing losses becomes a testament to resilience, lineage, and a fate that binds generations across the years. The legacy of the musketeers endures through their descendants, and in that continuation, the story reaffirms the enduring power of courage, loyalty, and a united France that refuses to surrender its heart to corruption or despair.