Feature film
The Three Musketeers
Los tres mosqueteros
Julio Saraceni · 1946
Synopsis
The film follows the French adventure novel of 1844 from which it is drawn: come from his native Gascony to join the company of the king's musketeers, the young d'Artagnan befriends three of them, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, and becomes caught up in the intrigues that Cardinal Richelieu and the Comte de Rochefort wage against the queen. Duels, rides and court plots follow one another; Roberto Airaldi plays Athos, Miguel Moya the cardinal, and a large part of the action was shot in Montevideo.
Context
Produced by Filmadora Latinoamericana from a screenplay by Hugo Mac Dougall, the film is shot largely in Montevideo and is regarded as a coproduction between Argentina and Uruguay. An Argentine actor plays d'Artagnan, surrounded by Roberto Airaldi, Francisco Pablo Donadio, Miguel Moya and Enrique Roldán. It runs 103 minutes; the databases date it to 1945 or 1946. It belongs to the wave of coproductions of the forties and fifties, shot in both countries with crews from both sides of the river.
Who it is for
A swashbuckler in Spanish, about an hour and forty minutes long, drawn from a classic of adventure fiction.
Prizes and reception
One of the co-productions between Uruguay and Argentina that mark Uruguayan cinema of the forties.