Images of the Musketeers in Russian cinema - a ready-made clichés, in which actors try to fit all kinds. In 2014 serial adaptation of "The Three Musketeers," directed by Sergei Zhigunov actors - are young, who have not yet become familiar audience, Russian artists.

One for all and all for one

The role of D'Artagnan went Rinalia Mukhametov. Choosing between risk: take not too experienced actor in the series with caution, that he can not cope, or opt for an actor with experience, but c makeweight in the form of previous roles and well-established role, Zhigunov chose to invite to the role of an unknown young man.

Mukhametov to "The Three Musketeers" had to be lighted in the film "Atonement" and the TV series "Tower. New people". Experience of starring it lacks a lot of D'Artagnan in his youthful enthusiasm, but it is more like a natural expression of stupidity than adventurous talent and passion for adventure. It is difficult to expect recent graduate from university theater some identity or original approach to the interpretation of the character, especially in the film version, which does not need any original interpretation.

Athos plays perhaps the most experienced and well-known actor for this team, winner of several theater awards - Yuri Chursin ("palmist", "chemist"). Chursin great actor who is able to interact with the other characters, to maintain a dialogue, exude charm and remember that he is in the image, aggravated by a dramatic past and a fatal love. However, on a general level, he too stands out, overshadowing colleagues. This would not be such a great disadvantage if it were possible to forget that is the story of D'Artagnan, instead of Athos.

On the role of Porthos, he was invited Alexey Makarov ("Multiplying sadness", "Moscow Saga"), and on the role of Aramis Pavel Barshak ("Process", "Flying Butterfly"). Thanks to makeup, it takes a lot of time to figure out who is who. Actors are lost on the background scenery, can not cope with the need to wear a suit and fit in a certain historical era. The impression of their games in the series also remains blurred, on the one hand, there are the characters in the picture, on the other hand, are not remembered anything.

The beautiful half

The female lead of the series went to Catherine Vilkovo and Anna Maria Mironova Starshenbaum. Vilkova plays Milady, the most controversial and for the free treatment of Guerin narrative. Initially, the role should have execute or Svetlana Oksana Akinshina Hodchenkova, neither the one nor the other, unfortunately did not happen. Vilkov also played slurred, she did not have the spark that would make it different from the others, memorable. My lady has never been an ordinary character, it can play as a cold-blooded killer, and miserable outcast woman. Vilkova chose the second option, but was unable to play so as to cause sympathy. Her partner on the sets Yuri Chursin took on the role of the victim in the dramatic novel that binds them characters.

Maria Mironova on the screen a little, a little hurt for her talent, but the Queen Anne of Austria, in her performance turned feminine, full of dignity and inner strength, an interesting contrast to his on-screen husband. Anna Starshenbaum invited to the role of Constance Bonacieux, perfect for D'Artagnan, played Rinalia Mukhametov. Their love story is infinitely boring on the background of passions boiling around.

The second role

Actors invited to the role of the secondary characters, oddly enough, interesting people who should lead the narrative. Philip Jankowski ("Rasputin", "The Bremen Town Musicians and Co") plays the role of Louis XIII. Jankowski plays a small, but always talented and shrill. His image of the King of France - one of the most humane and natural thing in the show.

Cardinal Richelieu, played Vassily lans ("War and Peace", "Days of Turbin"), is not so much a tribute to the charismatic, insidious policy, what made him to portray as the prototype of a senior mentor, tired of the constant vagaries of the king and the need to keep the country from collapse. It does not cause the location, but it can not be condemned. The series is also worth noting the game Konstantin Lavronenko as the Duke of Buckingham and Alexander Lykov, executed on the screen Musketeers Captain de Treville.

All the characters of the series are well known to the audience, who at the time of viewing can give the impression that they are sitting in a circle of good friends, who tell the same stories year after year. And no amount of "fresh" face did not change this secondary perception of history, only a complete change of concept, which can not be expected in the near future.

Anna Chizh

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