Movie (or miniseries) based on the novel by french author Alexandre Dumas (père). It is the third and last of The d'Artagnan Romances, following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After. The principal heroes of the novel are Raoul of Bragelonne and the old musketeers: D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis. The narrative is set between 1660 and 1673 against the background of the transformation of Louis XIV from child monarch to Sun King. The plot incorporates the idea that the Man in the Iron Mask is the twin brother of Louis XIV, Philippe, who had been concealed and imprisoned from birth by his father, Louis XIII, and his mother, Anne of Austria, "for the good of France".
