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Right. I'm just going to go ahead and take my time over this one, da? Because I am head over heels.
First thing you do. Read the book. La Dame de Monsoreau/Chicot the Jester, whichever language is easier. I cannot recommend the book highly enough! I think it is online for free, too, but the version looks shaky. I got hold of the 1910 Everyman's Library version, which seems much better translated. Anyway.
Then what you do, is you go here, which is where you'll find all 26 episodes of the Russian serial Grafinya de Monsoro, in russian with english subtitles. It is GORGEOUSLY done. Follows the book almost exactly, down nearly to the dialogue, in all but a couple of areas, and it is acted superbly (my favourites would be Aleksei Gorbunov, as Chicot, and Yekaterina Strizhenova as Jeanne de Saint Luc). Plus the costumes, and the sets (I think you can only get sets like that in Eastern Europe), and the gorgeous, gorgeous language ... who knew russian was so damn sexy?
( Then you can understand this squeeing of mine: )
First thing you do. Read the book. La Dame de Monsoreau/Chicot the Jester, whichever language is easier. I cannot recommend the book highly enough! I think it is online for free, too, but the version looks shaky. I got hold of the 1910 Everyman's Library version, which seems much better translated. Anyway.
Then what you do, is you go here, which is where you'll find all 26 episodes of the Russian serial Grafinya de Monsoro, in russian with english subtitles. It is GORGEOUSLY done. Follows the book almost exactly, down nearly to the dialogue, in all but a couple of areas, and it is acted superbly (my favourites would be Aleksei Gorbunov, as Chicot, and Yekaterina Strizhenova as Jeanne de Saint Luc). Plus the costumes, and the sets (I think you can only get sets like that in Eastern Europe), and the gorgeous, gorgeous language ... who knew russian was so damn sexy?
( Then you can understand this squeeing of mine: )
