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Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer
Original Title
Alatriste- Director: Agustín Díaz Yanes
- Writer: Arturo Pérez-Reverte; Agustín Díaz Yanes
- Producer: Belén Atienza; Álvaro Augustín
CGiii Comment
Condensing 5 novels into 140 minutes is a Herculean task...this is an epic, beautifully shot production.
And, it all boils down to an unsatisfactory nothing...an expensive, passionless nothing.
Why the director had to cast a woman in a man's role is inexplicable and wholly unconvincing.
Mightily ambitious and a mighty disaster...and, the end is like a deflated tyre.
A monumental letdown.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Spain 17th century.Diego Alatriste, brave and heroic soldier, is fighting under his King's army in the Flandes region. His best mate, Balboa, falls in a trap and near to die ask to Diego, as his last desire, to looking after his son Inigo and grow him as a soldier. Alatriste has to come back to Madrid.
Cast & Characters
Viggo Mortensen as Diego Alatriste;
Elena Anaya as Angelica de Alquezar;
Unax Ugalde as Íñigo Balboa;
Eduard Fernandez as Sebastian Copons;
Eduardo Noriega as Conde de Guadalmedina;
Ariadna Gil as Maria de Castro;
Juan Echanove as Francisco de Quevedo;
Javier Camara as Conde Duque de Olivares;
Antonio Dechent as Curro Garrote;
Blanca Portillo as Fray Emilio Bocanegra;
Francesc Garrido as Martín Saldaña;
Pilar Lopez de Ayala as Mujer de Malatesta;
Jesús Castejón as Luis de Alquezar;
Cristina Marcos as Joyera;
Luis Zahera as Pereira