Pierre Niney, Anaïs Demoustier, the poster is beautiful. In the new adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, which is released in theaters this Friday, viewers will be able to admire the fortress and the panoramic view of the Château d’If, off the coast of Marseille, on the archipelago of the islands of Frioul, but also the Giens peninsula.
This Friday, June 28, the film will be released in theaters Le Comte de Monte Cristoan adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas. The main character is played by Pierre Niney, alongside Anaïs Demoustier and Laurent Lafitte. If some have already noticed in the trailer, we can see the Château d’If, the fortress built on the Frioul archipelago, off the coast of Marseille.
Presented at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, the film The Count of Monte Cristo was shot in October 2023 off the coast of Marseille, on the Château d’If. At the 30th second of the trailer, published a month ago, we see Pierre Niney, playing Edmond Dantès, curled up. The scene took place in the former prison of Château d’If.
Other sequences are filmed outside, on the terrace of the Château d’If, when the actor escapes from his cell. Viewers can see panoramic images of the island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.
And if this fortress was chosen by producer Dimitri Rassam, it is no coincidence. This is the place in which the novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas, published in 1844, takes place. The writer, born in 1802, was interested in the fate of prisoners at the time, taking him to visit the former prison of the Château d’If. A few years later, he visited the small island of Monte Cristo, a small Italian island. A mixture of these two visits inspired the French writer from Aisne.
“Dantes stood up, naturally cast his eyes on the point where the boat seemed to be heading, and a hundred toises in front of him, he saw rising the black and steep rock on which rises like a superfetation of flint the dark Château d’If.“, writes Alexandre Dumas in his novel, when he evokes the castle in which the hero is imprisoned.
And to make you want to go see this film awaited by moviegoers, we’ll tease you a little… It’s in Marseille that Edmond Dantès, a 19-year-old sailor, played by Pierre Niney, arrives to get married. Betrayed by friends jealous of his success, he was denounced as a Bonapartist, a crime at the time. He is arrested in the middle of his marriage. He remained locked up in a jail at the Château d’If, off the coast of Marseille, for 14 years. The hero ends up meeting Abbot Faria, a learned priest, imprisoned in the next cell. The man tells him he knows where a treasure is hidden and gives him a map to help him find it.
Edmond Dantès escapes from the Château d’If prison, recovers the treasure and becomes filthy rich. He takes on a new identity and renames himself the Count of Monte Cristo. What he wants at all costs: revenge on those who betrayed him in this new life.
We won’t tell you anything further. On the other hand, you will be able to find familiar landscapes in our region in this film, since it was also filmed on the Giens Peninsula in Hyères, in the Var.
