DArtagnan and Three Musketeers
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Duration Country Soviet Union | Director Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich Writer Alexandre Dumas, pere , Mark Rozovsky Language Russian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date December 24, 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
dArtagnan and Three Musketeers (Russian: , dArtanyan i tri mushketera) is a three-part musical miniseries produced in the Soviet Union and first aired in 1978. It is based on the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, pere.
Contents
The film stars Mikhail Boyarsky as dArtagnan, Veniamin Smekhov as Athos, Igor Starygin as Aramis, Valentin Smirnitsky as Porthos, Margarita Terekhova as Milady de Winter, Oleg Tabakov as King Louis XIII, Alisa Freindlich as Anne of Austria, and Aleksandr Trofimov (actor) as Cardinal Richelieu. The film, and its numerous songs became extremely popular in the Soviet Union throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, and is now considered a classic.
Three sequels were made: Musketeers Twenty Years After (1992), The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers Thirty Years After (1993) and The Return of the Musketeers, or The Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin (2009).
D artanyan i tri mushketyora 1978 part3
Plot
The film consists of three parts:
Location
The miniseries was filmed in different locales around the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (current day Ukraine), using several of the countrys fortresses and old cities, such as Lviv (Lvov, Lwow).