Monte-Cristo

Edmond Dantès, a nineteen-year-old sailor, arrives in Marseilles to become engaged to the beautiful Mercédès the next day. Betrayed by jealous "friends", he is denounced as a Bonapartist conspirator and locked up in a prison in the Château d'If. After fourteen years of imprisonment, he managed to escape and then set about taking methodical revenge on those who had falsely accused him. With remarkable talent, storyteller Nicolas Bonneau, actress/musician Fanny Chériaux and guitarist Mathias Castagné revisit this monument in the form of a thrilling radio thriller. No need to have read Dumas! Pace, humour, voice, quality of performance... You're bound to fall for this "Tarantinesque" soap opera, with its "Moriconian" echoes, as surely as Dantès, the hero thirsting for vengeance who proves, if proof were needed, the universality and timelessness of Dumas' work.