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d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers Directed by Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich Written by Alexandre Dumas, père
Mark RozovskyStarring Mikhail Boyarsky
Veniamin Smekhov
Igor Starygin
Valentin SmirnitskyMusic by Maksim Dunayevsky Cinematography Aleksandr Polynnikov Editing by Tamara Prokopenko Distributed by Gosteleradio
Odessa Film StudiosRelease date(s) December 24, 1978 Running time 220 minutes (3 parts) Country Soviet Union Language Russian d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (Russian: д'Артаньян и три мушкетёра, d'Artanyan 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, père.
The film stars Mikhail Boyarsky as d'Artagnan, 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 Alexandr Trofimov as Cardinal Richelieu. The film,[1] 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).
Contents
Plot
The film consists of three parts:
- Part I: "Athos, Porthos, Aramis and d'Artagnan" (Атос, Портос, Арамис и д’Артаньян)
- Part II: "Queen's Pendants" (Подвески королевы)
- Part III: "The Adventures Continue" (Приключения продолжаются)
Location
The miniseries was filmed in different locales around the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (current day Ukraine), using several of the country's fortresses and old cities, such as L'viv (L'vov, Lwow).
See also
- Dog in Boots, an animated parody film that satirizes D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers.[2]
References
- ^ "Top 15 Miniseries of all Time". Listverse. http://listverse.com/2010/09/28/top-15-miniseries-of-all-time/. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
- ^ "Animated parodies of Efim Gamburg" (in Russian). October 2, 2008. http://www.stengazeta.net/news.html?news=5298. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
External links
- D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers at AllRovi
- D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers at the Internet Movie Database
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Categories:- Soviet films
- Russian-language films
- 1978 films
- Films based on The Three Musketeers
- Soviet television miniseries
- Odessa Film Studio films
- 1970s musical films
- Soviet film stubs
- Musical film stubs
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