The Three Musketeers
About The Three Musketeers
A duckling reads Dumas at bedtime and dreams the opening chapters. In the dream he is d'Artagnan, three cats are the musketeers, and the cardinal's guards are dogs. The duel at the mill is broken up by the guards, and the four fight them off. He wakes after falling out of bed, takes three toy cats under the covers, and goes back to sleep. Ivan Ivanov-Vano directed the Soyuzmultfilm short.
Cast & crew
More about The Three Musketeers
Georgy Beryozko wrote it with Ivanov-Vano, and Nikita Bogoslovsky composed the score. Wikidata lists 10 minutes and the year 1938. Ivanov-Vano later wrote that studio disorder pushed him into a Disney-like manner he did not want, on this film and on Lgunishka.
Themes
Making
Ivanov-Vano said he made the short in a style "a la Disney" that was foreign to him.
Music
Nikita Bogoslovsky is the composer on Wikidata.
Notes
- The dream stops at the start of the friendship, not at the later Dumas intrigues.
- The duck's real-world companions are toy cats, matching the dream musketeers.
- No voice cast is on Wikidata.
- Animators named on the Russian page include Boris Dyozhkin and Faina Yepifanova.
Scenes
- The duckling falls out of bed, wakes, and climbs back in with three toy cats.
Influenced by
- Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1938. Три мушкетёра.webm)
