小说以法国波旁王朝和七月王朝两大时期为背景，描写了一个报恩复仇的故事。法老号大副唐泰斯受船长的临终嘱托，为拿破仑送了一封信，受到两个对他嫉妒的小人的陷害，被打入死牢，狱友法里亚神甫向他传授了各种知识，还在临终前把一批宝藏的秘密告诉了他。他设法越狱后找到了宝藏，成为巨富。从此他化名为基督山伯爵，经过精心策划，报答了他的恩人，惩罚了三个一心想置他于死地的仇人。

In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

2005 South Korean film directed by Park Chan-wook