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Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer

Country: Spain, Language: Spanish, 145 mins

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.


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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