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Alatriste (2006)

Author: Agustin Diaz Yanes
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Extended: CAPT, LT, WO2, SGT
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Director, Agustin Diaz Yanes. (145min)
The film is based on a series of novels by Arturo Perez-Reverte (available in English translation) and stars Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings) as a mercenary captain in Spanish service in the first half of the seventeenth century. A visually lush production, it ends with the climactic battle of Rocroi (1643) and the presumed death of the central character as the Spanish army is overwhelmed by their French adversaries. 

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