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Screened out of competition on the Croisette in May 2024, it was one of the 20 films supported by the Region presented at Cannes 2024.
To be discovered in theaters since June 28, 2024, the film The Count of Monte Cristo was produced in the wake of the latest adaptation of Dumas’ other monument, The three Musketeers, a diptych also with a big budget released at the end of 2023.
The two projects, which were carried out by the same team, have among other things in common:
Here, enhanced by cutting-edge visual effects, is a new adaptation that inevitably re-sorts the episodes and countless twists and turns of the novel. With one goal: to speed up the story.
The story, still as thrilling as ever, begins with the abdication of Napoleon and the return of the monarchy, at the beginning of the 19th century. It is that of the young Edmond Dantès, arrested on his wedding day, following a slanderous denunciation, for a crime he did not commit. After 14 years of detention in the Château d’If, he manages to escape. Having become immensely rich, he returns under the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo to take revenge on the 3 men who betrayed him: the prosecutor Villefort, General Morcerf and the banker Danglars…
Pierre Niney plays the Count of Monte Cristo. Laurent Laffite, Bastien Bouillon and Patrick Mille play the traitors. And Anaïs Demoustiers and Anamaria Vartolomei play the wife Mercédès and the mysterious Haydée respectively.
