The target of a nefarious plot, young Edmond Dantes is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit and imprisoned in the grim fortress of Ifo. After spending fourteen years in the island prison in terrible conditions, he finally manages to escape. Calling himself the Count of Montecristo, he now seeks merciless revenge on all the perpetrators of his misfortunes.
The most expensive French film of 2024 is based on the classic of youth literature Alexandre Dumas' epic The Count of Montecristo, which, together with the novel The Three Musketeers, is considered the author's best work and is often included in lists of the best novels of all time.
To this day, it is one of the most popular stories about love, betrayal and revenge, which has inspired dozens of film adaptations and moved to theater stages, and has been reborn in thousands of other books, series and stories.