Monte Cristo
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Monte Cristo |
| Original title | The Count of Monte Cristo |
| Country of production | United Kingdom , United States , Ireland |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 125 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK / JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kevin Reynolds |
| script | Jay Wolpert |
| production |
Gary Barber Roger Birnbaum Jonathan Glickman |
| music | Ed Shearmur |
| camera | Andrew Dunn |
| cut |
Stephen Semel Christopher Womack |
| occupation | |
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Monte Cristo ( The Count of Monte Cristo ) is an adventure film from Kevin Reynolds from the year 2002 . The plot is based on the novel The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas the Elder from the years 1844 to 1846, but allows several major deviations.
action
In 1814, during Napoléon Bonaparte's first exile on Elba , Edmond Dantès and his noble friend Fernand Mondego are sailors on a merchant ship in the Mediterranean. When their captain falls seriously ill, they call on the island of Elba to take him to a doctor. Even if any help comes too late, Napoléon has him examined personally by his personal doctor. In return he asked Dantès to take a strictly confidential letter to France and hand it to a certain Clarion.
Back in Marseille, Dantès is promoted to captain and thus attracts the resentment of the first officer Danglar, who feels that the promotion has been ignored. Now he can marry his fiancée Mercédès, who is also what his supposedly best friend Mondego is after.
Mondego and Danglars conspire against Dantès. Mondego tells Danglars about Napoléon's letter, whereupon he charges Dantès with high treason. He is arrested and brought before the public prosecutor Villefort. He realizes that the naive Dantès is innocent and wants to let him go. But when Dantès gives him the name of the addressee, he has him thrown into the dungeon of the Château d'If without trial . The recipient, Clarion, is the public prosecutor's father. Shortly after his imprisonment, Villefort has his father killed by Mondego. In return, he informs Mercédès that Dantès had been executed. Since Mercedes is already secretly expecting a child from Dantès, she marries Mondego a month later.
Dantès spent the next thirteen years at the Château d'If. He had already lost his will to live when suddenly his fellow prisoner Abbé Faria digs his way to his cell. They become friends and Faria gives him lessons in all scientific disciplines as well as in using the saber . Together they try to dig their way out. One day when the tunnel collapsed over Faria, he was fatally injured and gave Dantès a map of the fabulous treasure of Spada on the island of Monte Cristo. After Abbé dies, Dantès tricked the guards by taking his place in the body bag and being thrown into the sea.
On a neighboring island, Dantès meets the smuggler Luigi Vampa and his sailors. Vampa forces Dantès to have a knife fight with Jacopo because he tried to steal from him. Dantès wins and convinces Vampa to spare Jacopo's life too. Jacopo then swears to serve Dantès. Dantès joins the smugglers and together they reach Marseille. He visits his former employer Morrell, who does not recognize him, and learns that his father had committed suicide. Danglars has taken over Morrell's shipping company, while Mondego and Villefort have moved to Paris. Dantès sails with Jacopo on a dinghy to the island of Monte Cristo and finds the treasure there. As "Count of Monte Cristo" he goes to Paris to take revenge on his enemies. Mondego is driven to ruin and Dantès reconciles with Mercédès after learning that Albert Mondego is actually his son. Fernand Mondego dies in a duel with Dantès.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film lacks the “romantic mood” of the novel as well as the “psychological sensitivity”. He was "reduced to a fast-paced web of action".
background
Filming took place in Ireland and Malta . Production costs were estimated at 35 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 54.2 million in cinemas in the United States and approximately $ 75.4 million worldwide.
literature
- Alexandre Dumas : The Count of Monte Christo (original title: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo ). Based on an old translation from the French by Meinhard Hasenbein . Illustrations by Pavel Brom and Dagmar Bromova . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2004, 1200 pages, ISBN 3-458-34760-7
Web links
- Monte Cristo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Monte Cristo at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Monte Cristo at Metacritic (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Monte Cristo. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Filming locations for The Count of Monte Cristo
- ^ Business Data for The Count of Monte Cristo