D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers

D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers DVD Cover Country USSR Directed by Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich Release Date 1979 Language Russian Studio Gosteleradio Odessa Film Studios Distributor Gosteleradio Odessa Film Studios Main Cast Character Actor d'Artagnan Mikhail Boyarskiy Athos Venyamin Smekhov Aramis Igor Starygin Porthos Valentin Smirnitskiy Milady de Winter Margarita Terekhova Cardinal Richelieu Aleksandr Trofimov Louis XIII Oleg Tabakov

d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (Russian: д'Артаньян и три мушкетёра d'Artanyan i tri mushketyora) is the 1979 three-part made-for-TV movie, directed by Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich and based on the novel of famous French writer Alexandre Dumas. This film is the first of the tetralogy, which also include 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 (2013).

The following weapons were used in the film D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers:

Flintlock Pistol

d'Artagnan (Mikhail Boyarskiy) carries two Flintlock Pistols on his belt, rarely holds it, but had never fires. Athos (Venyamin Smekhov) also owns the same pistol and uses it at the a few times. Milady de Winter (Margarita Terekhova) also can be seen armed with the flintlcok pistol.

Russian Cavalry Pistol M1809 - .70 cal

Milady holds her pistol.

Athos threatens Milady.

d'Artagnan with two pistols.

Milady holds her pistol.

Percussion Cap Pistol

In one scene d'Artagnan (Mikhail Boyarskiy) carries an anachronistic Percussion Cap Pistol.

Russian M1854 Naval percussion cap pistol - .71 caliber. The screen gun has similar outlook, except for the absent ramrod.

D'Artagnan carries a percussion cap pistol in his belt.

One of d'Artagnan's pistol is a percussion cap and another one is flintlock. Later in the same sequence he carries two flintlock pistols.

Wheellock Pistol

Several Wheellock Pistols can be seen on the wall.

A Wheellock pistol

Wheellock Musket (mockup)

d'Artagnan (Mikhail Boyarskiy), Athos (Venyamin Smekhov), Porthos (Valentin Smirnitskiy), Aramis (Igor Starygin) and a few other musketeers and Cardinal Richelieu's guards can be seen armed with mockups of Wheellock Muskets.

Wheellock Musket (16th/17th centuries)

d'Artagnan holds the musket.

Athos holds the musket.

Cardinal's Guard holds a musket. Note that this mockup, as like as the ones of two previous screenshots, lacks any kind of lock.

A close view of fake "wheellock".

Aramis aims his musket.

Another view of the same scene.

A barrel of a musket can be seen.

Cannon

Smoothbore muzzleload cannon can be seen.