The avenger from the coffin

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Movie
German title The avenger from the coffin
Original title Sous le signe de
Monte Cristo
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1968
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director André Hunebelle
script Jean Halain ,
Michel Lebrun ,
André Hunebelle
production André Hunebelle,
Marcello Danon ,
Lucien Masson ,
Pierre Cabaud
music Michel Magne
camera Raymond Lemoigne
cut Colette Lambert
occupation

The avenger from the coffin (reference title: Hunted like Monte Christo ) is a French adventure film by André Hunebelle from 1968. It is based very freely on the leitmotif of the novel The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas . The main roles are played by Paul Barge , Claude Jade , Anny Duperey and Pierre Brasseur .

action

André Hunebelle's film shifts the beginning of the plot to 1947 .

Edmond Dantès, who was active as a resistance fighter against the National Socialists , is denounced as a Nazi collaborator and imprisoned in the Sisteron fortress . He plays dead and at his own funeral flees to South America with fellow prisoner Bertuccio. But supposed friends have manipulated the plane and it crashes off the coast. Edmond is considered dead. In the rocky area, the two men encounter young Linda and her father Louis, who are on the verge of dying of thirst, and save their lives. Another man soon joins the trio, the old drinker Faria.

A short time later, Linda is kidnapped by French people living in exile in Brazil, and her father is killed in a rescue operation. The three men take Linda under their wing. Faria, to whom Linda is the same as a daughter, has an ace up her sleeve and leads Dantès, Bertuccio and Linda to a treasure that could not only shape Linda's future free of financial worries, but also give Dantès the opportunity to do what has happened to him To punish injustice.

While recovering the treasure, Faria dies, Linda mourns the old man who was like a second father to her. Now rich and independent, Edmond returns with Bertuccio and Linda as Comte Christian Montez twenty years after his conviction to the scene of the event. Since he had previously had a facial operation, he cannot be recognized as Edmond Dantès. He is determined to tear the mask off the faces of the real culprits.

Edmond's then fiancée Maria, who believed at the time that Edmond actually died in the plane crash, is now married to the informer Morcerf. As agreed with Dantès, Linda sneaks into the trust of Morcerf's co-conspirator, the lawyer Gérard de Villefort, and sets a trap for him by asking him to rehabilitate Christian Montez, because in truth he is Edmond Dantès. Villefort falls for Edmond's plan and immediately informs his friends. Everyone agrees that Dantès must be silenced, which apparently works.

At a funeral service for Edmond's funeral, the criminals hypocritically condoled Linda. The villains are terrified when Dantès reveals himself and proves who is really responsible for the deeds that were blamed on him. Edmond confronts Villefort with the fact that he even murdered his accomplice Carderousse in cold blood with the aid of Morcerf, but that was not enough; twenty years ago they shot twelve resistance fighters and finally had an innocent man convicted of the crimes, him, Edmond Dantès. When Morcerf points his gun at Edmond, Maria throws herself in between and sacrifices her life for the man she has always loved. Morcerf runs into a neighboring room and throws himself out of the window to his death.

The fate of those responsible for all outrages is thus sealed. On his yacht, which bears the name “Monte Cristo”, Edmond, Bertuccio and Linda move away from the place of revenge. Will Edmond find happiness with Linda? Far from the place that holds so many sad memories. His thoughts are with Maria and the poem Unterm Pont Mirabeau by Apollinaire , which has always connected both: “The night comes, the hour strikes. The days go by, I'm staying. "

production

Production notes

The shooting for the PAC, Société Nouvelle Pathé Cinéma, Sirius and Da.Ma. The film produced started on July 16, 1968 in Almería in Andalusia , on the Côte d'Azur in France and in Fontainebleau in the Île-de-France region in the Seine-et-Marne department and in Paris .

For Claude Jade, after Truffaut's romantic drama Robbed Kisses, this was her second appearance in a movie.

publication

The film premiered in France on December 11, 1968. It was shown in Finland in March 1969, in Denmark in August 1969 and in Hungary in September 1969. It was published in Portugal on March 26, 1970. It also ran in Brazil, Spain, Greece, Italy, Yugoslavia and the USA, there under the title The Return of Monte Cristo, alternatively Under the Sign of Monte-Cristo.

In the Federal Republic it was published for the first time on May 15, 1969 under the title Der Avenger aus dem Sarg , in the German Democratic Republic it was broadcast on May 16, 1981 in the DFF 1 program under the title Hunted like Monte Christo .

criticism

"Viscous and without tension."

- Lexicon of international film

“The“ Monte Christo stuff ”as a modern action film. The numerous plot elements inherent in the original bring the flick to bear to some extent, but you can see it constantly - also in the fact that the actors who are good in themselves are not challenged at all - how unimaginative and listless it was written and staged. "

- Protestant film observer , review No. 259/1969

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The avenger from the coffin. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 18, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used