D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers

D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers
Directed by	Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich
Written by	Alexandre Dumas, père Mark Rozovsky
Starring	Mikhail Boyarsky Veniamin Smekhov Igor Starygin Valentin Smirnitsky
Cinematography	Aleksandr Polynnikov
Edited by	Tamara Prokopenko
Music by	Maksim Dunayevsky
Distributed by	Gosteleradio Odessa Film Studios
Release date	December 24, 1978 (1978-12-24)
Running time	248 minutes (3 parts)
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (Russian: Д'Артаньян и три мушкетёра, D'Artanyan i tri mushketyora) is a three-part swashbuckler musical miniseries produced in the Soviet Union and first aired in 1978. It is based on the 1844 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 as Cardinal Richelieu, and Lev Durov as Captain de Tréville. 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).