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The former musketeer Athos (John Malkovich) swears vengeance after despotic King Louis XIV (Leonardo DiCaprio) causes the death of his son. Summoning his old comrades Porthos (Gérard Depardieu) and Aramis (Jeremy Irons), he hatches a plan to liberate a shackled prisoner rumoured to be the king’s twin brother, and then install him on the throne. But he must contend with their old friend D’Artagnan (Gabriel Byrne), who has remained in the king’s service. collaborat­ion between a group of South African musicians working with composer Jonathan de Vries. Together they have created a sequence of songs each expressing a different phase in the life of Nelson Mandela. The songs are joined together by a spoken word artist, S’phamandla (Maraza) Mhlongo. is studied. The extreme environmen­t guaranteed her preservati­on, but did it also kill her? With no sign of trauma, modern forensics, chemical analysis and historical evidence reconstruc­t her final moments to give further insights into the secrets of a lost civilisati­on.

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