The Three Musketeers (2013 film)

The Three Musketeers
Theatrical release poster
Три мушкетёра
Directed bySergei Zhigunov
Alexey Zlobin
Written byAndrey Zhidkov
Sergei Zhigunov
Based onThe Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas, père
Produced bySergei Zhigunov
Starring
CinematographyThe Sergei Zhigunov Production Center
Prime Time Studios
Music byAlexey Shelygin
Distributed byMosfilm
Release date
  • November 14, 2013 (2013-11-14)
Running time
112 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian
Budget$12 million
Box office$1.2 million

The Three Musketeers (Russian: «Три мушкетёра», tri mushketera) is a 2013 Russian historical adventure film based on the 1844 novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père. It was produced by The Production Center of Sergei Zhigunov.

The film has been released in two versions: as a two-hour movie in cinemas on November 14, 2013. and as a TV series consisting of 10 episodes of 45 minutes. The TV series was first shown in December 2013 on the Ukrainian 1+1 Channel and then on Russia's Channel One Russia in January 2014.

Young d'Artagnan is coming to Paris to be a musketeer. There he meets three old musketeers, members of the glorious King's Guard, but actually realizes that they are not the great fighters who he thinks they are. While joining the musketeers he is faced with the hidden plots of Cardinal Richelieu, his spy Milady de Winter and a possible war against England.