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The four lead actors -- Mikhail Boyarsky as d'Artagnan, Veniamin Smekhov as Athos, Valentin Smirnitsky as Porthos and Igor Starygin as Aramis -- became famous overnight in the Union after the movie's release, and "playing musketeers" quickly became one of the favorite pastimes of Soviet kids. They remained good friends after the filming, and were so enthusiastic about the project that they often assumed their character identities even off stage -- for example, when heading out to local bars in Odessa, having no time to take off their musketeer costumes because of the tight filming schedule.

The four later reprised their roles in three sequels, filmed after the Soviet Union fell: two based on Dumas' sequels to the novel (''Musketeers Twenty Years After'', 1992, and ''The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers Thirty Years After'', 1993), and [[Trilogy Creep|a fourth one]] in 2007, of which the less is said, the better.

 

* [[Composite Character]]: Felton is removed from the movie, and Lord Winter assumes his role.

* [[Crash Into Hello]]:

''[d'Artagnan, hurrying to return the queen's diamond studs, runs from offscreen and falls onto him]'' }}

* [[Dawson Casting]]: Boyarsky was 28 at the time the movie was filmed, while d'Artagnan is 18 in the book. This made for some [[Narm]] in a scene when d'Artagnan states his supposed age.

* [[Gratuitous French]]: In the songs ("Paris needs money, ''c'est la vie''"). Averted in regular dialogue, even though the setting just begged for it.

* [[I Have Many Names]]: Pointed out by Athos in a line absent from the book.

* [[Live Action Adaptation]]

* [[Mondegreen]]: Thanks to its large number of memorable songs, this was one of the richest sources of Mondegreens for its time. "Pourquoi pas" (French for "why not?") was interpreted variously as "pol-klopa" (Russian for "half a bedbug") or nonsensical non-words like "purklapa" or "kuklafa". Purely Russian lyrics weren't free either: "krasavitse i kubku" ("to the beautiful woman and the cup") is often misheard as "krasavitse Ikuku" ("to the beautiful woman Ikuku").

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