The Count of Monte Cristo (1943 film)
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The Count of Monte Cristo | |
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Roger Desormière | |
Production companies | Regina Films Excelsa Film |
Distributed by | Variety Distribution |
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Running time | 183 minutes |
Countries | France Italy |
Languages | French Italian |
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le comte de Monte Cristo) is a 1943 French-Italian
Cinecittà Studios in Rome and the Cité Elgé in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director René Renoux
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Plot
Napoleon. As a result of this imprudence, committed to respect the will of his predecessor, he falls victim to a plot hatched by the sailor Caderousse, by the officer Fernand Mondego (later Count de Morcerf), in love with Mercédès, Dantès's fiancée, and by the magistrate Gérard de Villefort (who fears to be compromised by the ultra-Bonapartist activities of his father, General Noirtier). Dantes is then taken in secret to the depths of a castle off the coast of Marseille
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Cast
- Pierre Richard-Willm as Edmond Dantès
- Michèle Alfa as Mercédès
- Aimé Clariond as Monsieur de Villefort
- Marcel Herrand as Bertuccio
- Ermete Zacconi as L'abbé Faria
- Alexandre Rignault as Caderousse
- Henri Bosc as Fernand, le comte de Morcerf
- Jacques Baumer as Noirtier
- André Fouché as Benedetto
- René Bergeron as Le policier
- Marie-Hélène Dasté as Madame de Villefort
- Yves Deniaud as Pénélan
- Fred Pasqualias Joannès
- Jean Joffre as Dantès père
- Paul Faivre as Brissard
- Georges Colin as Le juge d'instruction
- Line Noro as La Carconte
- Charles Granval as Monsieur Morel