D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers
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| Directed by | Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich |
| Written by |
Alexandre Dumas, père Mark Rozovsky |
| Starring |
Mikhail Boyarsky Veniamin Smekhov Igor Starygin Valentin Smirnitsky |
| Music by | Maksim Dunayevsky |
| Cinematography | Aleksandr Polynnikov |
| Edited by | Tamara Prokopenko |
| Distributed by |
Gosteleradio Odessa Film Studios |
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Release date
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December 24, 1978 |
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Running time
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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, Aleksandr Trofimov (actor) as Cardinal Richelieu, and Lev Durov as Captain de Tréville. 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).
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