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Adventure drama

The Count of Monte Cristo

Year
1929
Length
223 minWikidata 223-minute listing Version sources ↓

Edmond Dantès’s imprisonment, escape, reinvention, and revenge unfold across an unusually expansive silent adaptation of Dumas.

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Country
France
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A heavy chain with an open link lies across rough stone and dark green velvet.

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What to expect

Henri Fescourt gives the novel room for duration and consequence. SFFILM’s 3 May 2015 screening listed the rediscovered film at 218 minutes, with music by Marc-Olivier Dupin. Its account of Lenny Borger’s work identifies incomplete Czech distribution prints found in Prague. This screening record is separate from the 223-minute catalogue listing below.

How to ease in

Plan more than one sitting and keep a short list of names. The pleasure lies in watching identities and obligations accumulate, not in rushing from imprisonment to revenge.

Heads-up

A quick, non-exhaustive note Includes wrongful imprisonment, starvation, revenge, violence, death, and a very long reconstructed presentation assembled from multiple prints.
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Revenge stories often make recognition instantaneous. I like how time lets Dantès’s new identity become a world he has built and may no longer be able to leave.

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Credits & versions

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Wikidata 223-minute listing 223 min 223 minutes reproduces the single duration stated by the source. The listing does not identify a cut, score, territory, frame rate, source element, or restoration. Source: Wikidata — The Count of Monte Cristo Runtime reference · Checked 2026-08-22
SFFILM 2015 screening 218 min A historical 3 May 2015 screening record, listed by SFFILM at 218 minutes with music by Marc-Olivier Dupin. This is separate from the 223-minute catalogue listing and does not establish a current screening, a measured playback duration or a newly identified cut. Source: SFFILM — Lenny Borger / Monte Cristo, 3 May 2015 Checked 2026-10-25

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