'The Count' uses his new wealth as part of a plan to bring down the men who helped keep him behind bars for so long - Mondego, his henchman Danglars (Michel Aumont), and Count Morcef (Stanislas Merhar). Edmond escapes, finds the money, and assumes the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo. When Abbe (Georges Moustaki), a close friend and fellow prison inmate, is about to die, he tells Edmond of a fortune that he has hidden on the outside. Edmond (Depardieu) has been held in a French prison for nearly 20 years for daring to love Mercedes (Naike Rivelli), a woman who has also been wooed by a man in power, Mondego (Jean Rochefort).

Gerard Depardieu stars in this made-for-TV adaptation of the classic adventure story by Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas (pГЁre) completed in 1844.It is one of the authors more popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. Edmond escapes, finds the money, and assumes the identity of the Count of.

Gerard Depardieu stars in this made-for-TV adaptation of the classic adventure story by Alexandre Dumas.

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