D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers
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| D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers | |
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Movie poster for D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers |
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| Directed by | Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich |
| Written by | Alexandre Dumas père Mark Rozovsky |
| Starring | Mikhail Boyarsky Venyamin Smekhov Igor Starygin Valentin Smirnitsky |
| Music by | Maksim Dunayevsky |
| Cinematography | Aleksandr Polynnikov |
| Editing by | Tamara Prokopenko |
| Release date(s) | 1978 |
| Running time | 220 min (3 parts) |
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| Language | Russian |
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D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (Russian: Д'Артаньян и три мушкетёра) is a three-part Soviet television miniseries musical, first aired in 1978. It is based on the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père.
The film starred Mikhail Boyarsky as d'Artagnan, Veniamin Smekhov as Athos, Igor Starygin as Aramis, Valentin Smirnitsky as Porthos, Oleg Tabakov as King Louis XIII, Alisa Freindlich as Anne of Austria, and Alexander Trofimov as Cardinal Richelieu. The film, and its numerous songs became extremely popular in the Soviet Union throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s. Two sequels were made: Musketeers Twenty Years After (1992) and The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers Thirty Years After (1993).