Pthe adventures of. continue tonight on Canale 5 at 9.30pm The Count of Monte Cristoa 3-hour French film directed by Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte which the network broadcast in two parts, the first last night. Based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, tells the troubled story of the sailor Edmond Dantés, unjustly imprisoned many years before and now ready to take revenge of the friends who, 25 years earlier, had betrayed him. The protagonist is the actor Pierre Niney.
Edmond Dantés (Niney) is a young sailor from Marseille who is unjustly imprisoned with the accusation of being a loyalist of Napoleon Bonaparte. Fernand de Moncerf (Bastien Bouillon), Edmond’s friend, accuses him and cousin of Mercedes (Anais Demoustier)beautiful girl loved by both.
Jealous of Dantés, Fernand manages to have him condemned and so Edmond is locked up in the Château d’If, a gloomy island-fortress off the coast of Marseille. There. after trying to take his own life, meets Abbot Faria (Pierfrancesco Favino)a man who has been trying for many years to escape from prison by digging a tunnel. Together they plan an escape and Faria also reveals to Edmond the existence of a very rich treasure hidden in the small island of Montecristo.
Pierre Niney in a scene from “The Count of Monte Cristo”. (Jérôme Prébois/Pathe Films)
The Count of Monte Cristothe plot of the second part of the film on Canale 5
While Edmond plans to escape with Faria, the latter’s health conditions worsen rapidly, until paralysis and then death after a series of apoplectic attacks. Shortly before his death, LThe abbot reveals to him the exact location of the treasure hidden on the island of Monte Cristo. Dantès sees Faria’s death as the only concrete opportunity to escape and so he takes his place inside the sack in which the old man had been placed for burial at sea.
Thrown into the water, Edmond manages to free himself from the bag and reach the island of Tiboulen not far away. Finally free, after 14 years of imprisonment, and suddenly very rich thanks to the discovery of the treasure of Monte Cristo, Edmond builds a new identity for himself and, after a period of travel, he returns to France in the guise of the Count of Monte Cristo to take revenge on those who had imprisoned him.
Here he takes on a number of different identitieslike that of Abbot Busoni and the English nobleman Lord Wilmore, through which he performs good deeds towards those who have always been loyal to him. Then, 10 years after his return to Marseille, Dantès decides to concretely implement his settling of scores. Starting with Fernard, the former friend who in the meantime has married his beloved Mercédès.
“The Count of Monte Cristo”. (Jérôme Prébois/Pathe Films)
Leading the cast is Pierre Niney, one of France’s most beloved actors
Son of François Niney, philosopher, film critic and director of documentaries, Pierre Niney He made his theater debut at just eleven years old, then studied acting in Paris and at twenty he joined the Comédie-Française theater company, becoming the youngest member of the group.
After taking part in various TV films and short films, cinema arrives: first with LOL – Time for love alongside Juliette Binoche, then, thanks to his resemblance to the famous designer, he was chosen to play Yves Saint Laurent in the film of the same name movie by Jalil Lespert. Thanks to this interpretation he won the César Award for Best Leading Actor in 2015 and become a star in France with 2 million followers on Instagram.
Father of two little girlshad with the Australian partner Natasha Andrews, in recent years Pierre Niney starred in the internationally successful film such as The solution book by Michel Gondry. We will see it soon protagonist of the French film Feuilleman directed by French Youtubers Mcfly et Carlito. Story (bizarre and full of imagination) of a man who has the weight of a leaf and throws himself from buildingsaccompanied by a glass woman, a child who is a painting and a grandmother who is a padlock.
On his role in The Count of Monte Cristo, the actor stated in a press note: «For any actor, playing Monte Cristo is a dream comparable to that of playing Hamlet because it allows you to delve deeper into a multitude of existential but also professional themes. How to act at different ages, very different characters, between hope, desperation, revenge, calm. There are very few roles like this».
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