The first title in the English translation was published in the UK and the US back in1996; the latest one was released here in the US in 2011.
Back in 2006 a Spanish language film, Alatriste, was made, with Viggo Mortensen as capitán Alatriste, but, we lamented, it was never released in the US.
However! Now! available! streaming on amazon prime, subtitled in English, the description says, is the 2016 Spanish television Alatriste series!
I haven't watched yet, having for a change a cornucopia of watching riches -- though, not unusually, not much watching time. However, as el V heads out again soon, watching this will fill in gaps left by his absence.
This is going to be splendid because nobody does European medieval and renaissance era sword fights like the Spanish. This includes brilliant battle sequences with swords from horseback. They never forgot how this sort of thing is done.
Spanish television does Spanish historicals extraordinarily well,* maybe better than other Europes' historical tv / films. Spanish swashbuckle is just about equal, even, in the French swash's ballon element,** which is so indigenously French.
Unlike the French though, (at least going by Dumas) the Spanish swash additionally contains tragic awareness, the knowledge of the darkness in which all things inevitably end, the darkness that eats from the inside, which is what distinguishes Spanish swash from that of the other European swashes.
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* Which one sees in concentrated form in the Spanish television series El ministerio del tiempo, which I admire and enjoy so much too. Whether art and literature, history and politics, all the details are just right -- and are always included. Nothing in the episodes happens in situational or transactional tv vacuum, but fully in the milieu of its time, whether in the past or the present.
** definition: https://ballethub.com/ballet-term/ballon/
http://michaelminn.net/andros/biographies/balon_jean/index.html
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