Cast
- Viggo Mortensen as Captain Diego Alatriste
- Javier Cámara as Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares
- Eduardo Noriega as the Count of Guadalmedina
- Juan Echanove as the poet Francisco de Quevedo
- Unax Ugalde as Íñigo de Balboa, Alatriste's Basque squire
- Elena Anaya as Angélica de Alquézar, a teenaged femme fatale
- Ariadna Gil as María de Castro
- Francesc Garrido as policeman Saldaña
- Blanca Portillo as the inquisitor fray Emilio Bocanegra
- Antonio Dechent as Curro Garrote
- Paco Tous as Francisco de Melo
Antonio Resines, originally slated to appear as Saldaña, almost retired from the entire movie due to a traffic accident; however, he makes a cameo appearance in the Battle of Rocroi as a musketeer officer.
The film was released on 1 September 2006.
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