The Count of Monte Cristo attracts 125,000 spectators on its first day in theaters

An epic start! Specially released this Friday, June 28 in theaters on the occasion of the cinema festival, the most important French production of the year, The Count of Monte Cristo, gathered 125,010 spectators in one day, including 11,978 in preview, we learn French Film.

“Believe possible this wonderful welcome that you offer us. Yet I hoped for it so much, I even needed it, beyond what I wanted to admit to myself. There are films that inspire those who make them even more than what they crystallize on screen. The one more than all the others as far as I’m concerned, said enthusiastically the producer of the film Dimitri Rassam on X.

Signed by Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte, the fresco adapted from Dumas’ masterpiece features Pierre Niney in the role of Edmond Dantès, a protagonist with a thousand identities, caught up in a dark story of revenge.

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A young sailor from Marseille arrested on the day of his wedding with Mercédès (Anaïs de Moustier), accused of being a supporter of Bonaparte, he is unjustly imprisoned in the Château d’If for fourteen years. He manages to escape to return under the identity of the Count of Monte-Cristo to take revenge on those who betrayed him.

“The great advantage of this swirling French-style fresco is that it follows the moods of the hero as close as possible to his stream of consciousness, from the naivety of the young man brought down by a group of powerful cynics to the mysterious puppeteer who meticulously orchestrates his little theater of revenge, at the risk of losing his soul”considers the film critic of Figaro Olivier Delcroix.

The release of the film was a big challenge for its producer, Dimitri Rassam, and Pathé, already behind The Musketeerswith the ambition of also exporting popular French cinema internationally. The first part of the Three Musketeers had 3.4 million admissions in France, the second, Milady2,6 millions.