The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo (a.k.a. Le Comte de Monte Cristo) is a French-Italian four-part miniseries based on the 1844 novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père. Plot Edmond Dantès is falsely accused of Bonapartism and sentenced to spend the rest of his life imprisoned in the dreaded Château d'If, an island fortress from which no prisoner has ever escaped, and to which the most dangerous political prisoners are sent. While imprisoned, he meets Abbé Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. Abbé tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location. After many years in prison, the old Abbé dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body to find the treasure Abbé told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him. Cast Gérard Depardieu as Edmond Dantès Sergio Rubini as Bertuccio Ornella Muti as Mercedes Igualada Jean Rochefort as Fernand Mondego Pierre Arditi as Villefort Florence Darel as Camille de la Richardais Georges Moustaki as Abbé Faria Guillaume Depardieu as young Edmond Naike Rivelli as young Mercedès Julie Depardieu as Valentine de Villefort Christopher Thompson as Maximilien Morrel Stanislas Merhar as Albert De Morcerf Hélène Vincent as Heloise De Villefort Michel Aumont as Baron Danglars Constanze Engelbrecht as Hermine Danglars Roland Blanche as Caderousse Jean-Claude Brialy as Pere Morrel Inés Sastre as Haydee Serge Merlin as Noirtier De Villefort Jean-Marc Thibault as Barrois Thierry de Peretti as Toussaint Patrick Bouchitey as Beauchamp Frédéric Gorny as Château-Renaud Stéphan Guérin-Tillié as Franz D'Épinay Dominique Besnehard as Defense Attorney Julien Rochefort as the young Fernand Mondego Dimitri Rataud as the young Danglars Michel Bompoil as the young Villefort Arthur Nauzyciel as the young Caderousse Didier Lesour as Boville Daniel Martin as Doctor D'avrigny Micheline Presle as Madame De Saint Meran Roger Dumas as Cocles Mattia Sbragia as Luigi Vampa Ubaldo Lo Presti as Pepino Jacques Boudet as President of the Assembly of Peers Albert Delpy as The host of a show