DVD Release for Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer

Four years on from my post about a UK release for Alatriste starring Viggo Mortensen and based on the books by Arturo Perez-Reverte, it's finally happening, sort-of...the DVD is to be released on 26 September, now entitled Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer:

Viggo Mortensen stars as Captain Alatriste, the Spanish Musketeer, in this tale of war, betrayal and intrigue in seventeenth-century Imperial Spain under the reign of the weak and easily manipulated King Felipe IV. Alatriste has returned to Spain to find it a very different place and life is not what it once was. As a last wish to a dying friend he agrees to take charge of the young Inigo Balboa (Unax Ugalde) and protect him from both a military career and the Machiavellian woman whom he desperately loves. Witness the adventures of Captain Alatriste as he endures great love and hatred intertwined with momentous battles and duels set in the epic backdrop of the sprawling Spanish Empire.

(I think the artwork is subject to change especially as Viggo's name is incorrect.)

Alatriste film to be released in the UK?

I've been surfing away trying to find a release date for the film or dvd of Alatriste - the most expensive Spanish film ever, starring Viggo Mortensen, which is based on several Captain Alatriste books by Arturo Perez-Reverte. I've found mention of a release date of the film as May 2007. Meanwhile, residents of the Manchester area can go along to the Cornerhouse which is showing Alatriste on the 23rd, 24th and 25th March.


Read the Euro Crime review of the audio version of Captain Alatriste, the first book in the five book series.