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El Conde de Montecristo (1953)

El Conde de Montecristo poster
Original title
El conde de Montecristo
Directed by
León Klimovsky
Genre
adventure film
Country
Argentina
Runtime
1h 43m
Rating
5.3 of 10 from 21 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man is wrongly imprisoned and escapes to seek revenge. He transforms his identity and wealth to confront those who betrayed him.

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What happens

The Count of Monte Cristo (Spanish: El Conde de Montecristo) is a 1953 Argentine-Mexican historical adventure film directed by León Klimovsky during the classical era of Argentine cinema. It stars Jorge Mistral, Elina Colomer and Santiago Gómez Cou, and is based on Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel The Count of Monte Cristo. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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