Athos in the water

I have been reading Venjamin Smekhov's memoir When I was Athos (and have just skipped a section in Chapter 9, where he talks about location filming in the desert -- the Soviet Union was of course conveniently provided with those within its southern territories, as well as 17th-century street scenes in Lvov! -- because it looks as if it contains spoilers for the third film). And apparently they *did* insist on putting an aging and respectable actor into a struggle in the water when filming the small-boat scene where Mordaunt tries to drown him. It was, ironically, Mordaunt who was doubled for those shots! ( Read more... )