It also has been well-cast with a large number of French stars led byPierre Nineyas Edmond Dantes.
He tells Dantes of a treasure that can be retrieved once they are out.
Ten years pass, and finally they are near their goal when Faria is killed in a cave-in.
From : Patrick Mille, Laurent Laffite and Bastien Bouillon in ‘The Count of Monte-Cristo’Rémy Grandroques
Dantes switches places in the bag the supposedly dead Abbot is being hauled out in.
He is thrown into the ocean before officials discover the switch.
Dantes also takes on other identities along the way to hatch his elaborate plot.
Mille, Lafitte and Bouillon are ideal foils, craftily playing guys we want to root against.
Vartolomei also has been seen prominently in Cannes this week asLast Tango In Parisactress Maria Schneider inBeing Maria.
She is equally fine here in another juicy role.
