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In the 18th century, Claude Pinoche, a royalist French soldier, is discovered to be a vampire and survives an attempt to kill him. Witnessing the [[French Revolution]] and the execution of [[Marie Antoinette]], he fakes his death and flees abroad, participating in the suppression of revolutionary upheavals over the next two centuries. Eventually he ends up in [[Chile]] in 1935 and joins the [[Chilean Army]] under the name [[Augusto Pinochet]]. Rising to become a general, he [[1973 Chilean coup d'état|overthrows]] the socialist government of [[Salvador Allende]] in 1973 and becomes the country's dictator, while demanding that he be addressed as "The Count" by his family. When authorities begin investigating his ill-gotten wealth and human rights abuses after he leaves office, he fakes his death again and retires to a remote farm. After 250 years of existence,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-25 |title=El Conde {{!}} ¿De qué trata la película de Pablo Larraín en Netflix? |url=https://redgol.cl/tiempolibre/De-que-se-trata-la-pelicula-chilena-El-CondeQuienes-saldran-en-la-nueva-pelicula-de-Netflix-El-Conde-20220625-0099.html |access-date=2023-07-08 |website=RedGol |language=es-ES}}</ref> he gradually loses his will to live, worrying his wife [[Lucia Hiriart|Lucia]], and his long-time butler, Fyodor, a [[White movement|white Russian]] whom Pinochet bit and turned into a vampire.