D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers

d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers 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, 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 , The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers Thirty Years After and The Return of the Musketeers, or The Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin . The film consists of three parts: The miniseries was filmed in different locales around the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic , using several of the country's fortresses and old cities, such as L'viv .
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