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D'Artanyan i tri mushketyora (1978) (TV)
12 out of 13 people found the following comment useful :-
Best Russian classic so far, 11 March 2002
Author: NatBat from New York City
This particular movie, unlike many others of its kind, shows a deep and long lasting friendship, respect and love. I have seen this movie countless times and undoubtedly will watch it again. This movie doesn't age. Its characters stay with you forever. After seeing this version of "The Three Musketeers" I cannot watch any other. They all seem to lack the most imprtant thing, the one that the author wrote the book about - friendship. Most movies of this kind concentrate on the fighting and numerous stunts. I read "The Three Musketeers" and all the books that followed it numerous times. It makes me laugh when I watch American version of this movie. In "D'Artanyan" the cast is superb. The actors match their characters perfectly. The storyline follows the book, which is what I can't say about Anerican version. Growing up, my friends and I dreamed of meeting such D'Artanyan some day.... The movie was partly shot in the city where I used to live and it's true-streets became dead when the movie was shown. The next day, kids in school tried to re-enact the scenes. This movie relates the life in those times, just like the book.
4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful :-
One for all and all for one, 20 July 2001
Author: Igor Mikhaylov from Los Angeles, CA
I was born when this movie came out, so I saw it much later. Some times even now in my twenties I take out that film and watch it. The movie is very simple; it is about good and evil, adventure and misfortune. The whole romanticism with being a hero, a true hero. It is an absolute escape from the reality, but that is what it supposed to be.
Even now when we go camping with my friends we always sing the memorable songs from this movie.
The silliest and most ironic part about the movie is the duet between de'Treville and d'Artagnan, where de'Treville sings, "How old are you my child?" and d'Artagnan (Boyarski with huge mustache and is about 30-35) answers back, "I am 18 years old!" That is the greatest silliness.
5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :-
A classic, 22 October 2002
Author: neffys
I was 4 when I saw this movie (or should I say serie) for the first time. I still watch it, after 20 years. The songs are great, and brings a little extra to it. I love the characters, I compare every other movie of the three musketeers with this one. No-one beats it. I think it´s the best and most well made movie of this famous book.
4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :-
Not great, but I am still looking for a better musketeer movie, 30 September 1999
Author: SMalamud from Baltimore, USA
I am not a huge fan of musical comedies, musical action films or musical romances, and this movie is all of it in one. One should expect the characters to break into a song at any time during the movie as it is basically a filmed operette, loosely wrapped around the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas. Think 'The King and I' in Russian. Nothing unusual, however, for many Russian movies of the time. Songs were probably the only and the best sound effect available to Soviet directors back then.
However, in this particular movie everything fits in pretty nicely. Boyarsky's good looks (I dare anyone to find a better D'Artagnan in any film), Tabakov's silliness as Louis XIII, even Terekhova's acting as Milady. Credit is due to Yungvald-Khilkevich for putting it all together. The songs, written just for the movie, fit perfectly into the plot, and have become Russian classics, instantly recognized by anyone even now, 20 years later (pun intended).
The action sequences are quite good, the cinematography is beautiful, Porthos is lovable, Constance is a knockout. What else do you want from a musketeer movie?
3 out of 4 people found the following comment useful :-
A classic.., 27 May 2003
Author: Lenka (lenkam99) from Brooklyn, NY
I love this movie. Ever since I was a kid in Russia, I enjoyed watching this movie. Now, I really want to own a copy but can't find it anywhere. Although I am not a fan of musicals, the songs from this movie really take me back to the fun times of childhood. I haven't met a person yet who hasn't enjoyed this movie. It is a classic, and other Musketeer movies don't match it.
1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful :-
The best Duma adaptation, if you like musical., 27 September 2007
Author: Leon aka Pretender from Riga, Latvia
To put it simple, from my point of view this is the best A.Duma's / 3 Musketeers adaptation on screen ever, of course if you like musical.
This movie seamlessly blends the action and adventure of historical movies, with great spirit of classic 'D'Artagnan's ' tale and great, great taste of music and songs which blend in.
You get a movie with unexpectedly fresh and charming characters, lots of fun and humor and great songs.
This is one of the best movies of the Russian 'Soviet' era.
Of course a non-Russian speaking person (even with subtitles) would be hard to get a full at this movie, but the only with I have is that somebody actually do release this on DVD with English dubbing and subtitles.
People who love music movies and movies like ORIGINAL CHARLIE AND CHOC FACTORY etc - most probably be able to enjoy it....
Really a cult classic.
2 out of 3 people found the following comment useful :-
fantastic movie, 2 April 2006
Author: elnina8 from United States
This is one of the best movies I've ever seen. I suppose that's the very best way to put it.
The Three Musketeers is about a young man who sets out to earn his living as a musketeer. At the very beginning his letter of recommendation is stolen by a cardinal's "employee" and D'Argtagnan can't become a musketeer immediately. He meets three friends and has many adventures.
This movie is amazing. There's lots of laughter and excitement. The actors are phenomenal. I love this movie and I've seen it more than 30 times. If you're going to watch something, watch this.
2 out of 3 people found the following comment useful :-
Real classic movie - surely worth to see!, 5 February 2005
Author: sdrannikova from Netherlands
It's a great movie. And of course it's a bit old-fashioned for nowadays. But I really, really love it. And I haven't seen better Three Musketeers movie up till now. Though I've seen a lot. Music, songs, lyrics, actors, director - everything is just fitting greatly together to make it a really classic movie which will be still loved after so many years. And the songs they still sing and everybody, literally everybody in Russia knows the songs and even the quotes by heart. It is sometimes funny and sometimes really romantic and sometimes a bit naive film. And its surely worthwhile to watch! Boyarski (D'Artagnian) still lives in St. Petersburg and still terribly popular, especially for his role in this movie. I've seen him lately walking on the bank of Moika river - in black long coat and a black huge hat... and still with his mustache...
A fantastic Russian version!, 18 February 2007
Author: FromBookstoFilm from United States
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
SPOILERS I saw this movie back in the early 1980's and loved it and just I recently watched the DVD. This adaptation closely followed the book. Wonderful performances by all particularly the actors playing Athos,Porthos,Aramis,D'Artagnan,Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter. This version and the two sequels that followed rivaled the Richard Lester Musketeer Trilogy of the !970's and 1980's. Whenever I watch a film I check to see if the film remains to the original novel and this passed the test with flying colors. This movie had wonderful music and I really felt for the Athos character. I think this portrayal of Athos was the closest portrayal yet to the character. A goodhearted nobleman betrayed,ruined and driven to drink by a deceiving woman he had married who he thought was a perfect beauty,perfect angel only to discover she was a branded criminal,thief,con-artist liar,seductress and mistress of a defrocked priest who later but not intentionally re-enters his life as spy courtesan assassin Milady de Winter.This portrayal of Athos rivals the portrayals of actors Oliver Reed and Van Heflin as Athos in the 1973 and 1948 films. D'Artagnan may have been too old for the role but what a great performance! This film version's Milady de Winter really showed the deceiving and deadly character of Milady. That Milady could hold her own against the Musketeers and she really was their worst enemy. She didn't tremble in fear of the Musketeers.She stood up to them.Defeated Aramis and Porthos and shot D'Artagnan during the chase scene.This Milady was very athletic jumping out of window and onto a horse. Something no other Milady in any other version had done!The performance rivaled Faye Dunaway's and Emmanuelle Beart's Milady in the most recent adaptation. At times the character shows a soft beauty who as the picture progresses becomes more and more of a hardened calloused character. I love this film and I recommend it and the two sequels that followed. My favorite scene is the chase scene towards the end of the film reminds me in many ways of the chase scene in the Richard Lester's Four Musketeers but I like this one much better! Anyone who wants to see other faithful full adaptations from the beginning of the story to the end please see 1948,1961,1974,1999 and the 2005 versions.
1 out of 19 people found the following comment useful :-
"The Three Singing Musketeers"? - Why not?, 16 March 2001
Author: scribbler-2
A properly light-hearted adaptation of A. Dumas' book, with a lot of singing, dancing, fencing and prancing around.
What's bad about this movie, is that it's ultimately brainless and looks like it was made for 8-year-olds, or something, but this is why I still remember it in the first place - because I first saw it when I was about that age. (True, this is just the age when people normally read the book). Another disadvantage is that the characters don't look like Frenchmen at all - and don't even attempt to, except D'Artagnan and possibly Athos. These two arguably do have something "French" about them.
What's good about this movie is that it offers no angle to the wind, and you can take it in like a glass of beer - you're through before you even know it.
One more thing, the film was obviously made under a strong influence of "CJ Superstar", which shows especially in the fact that Aramis is the spit and image of Ted Neeley (with a goatee) - looks like him and sings like him, though I can't say if that's good or bad.
Score it 3/10.
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