Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross
Henry Dunant : Du rouge sur la croix
Henry Dunant, son of a Geneva francophone upper class bourgeoisie family, works for a Swiss exploitation company in French Algeria; when the colonists are thirsty, he returns determined to convince the firm and emperor Napoleon III to build a dam for them. After his Uncle, Dr. Hubert Dunant, diagnoses him not with Algerian typhus, just malaria, also his first meeting -dropping drawers in hospital for a shot- with nurse Cécile Thuillier, and meeting his careerist brother Daniel's fiancée, Léonie Bourg-Thibourg, daughter of the firm's boss, the board approves his plan. On his way to the emperor, who didn't even concede to receive him, Henry gets stuck in Castiglione, part of the Austrian province Lombardy which French troops came to 'liberate'; his Geneva friend Dr. Louis Appia saves his life by presenting him to suspicious Austrian troops as his medical assistant...
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Thomas Jouannet
as Henry Dunant
Noémie Kocher
as Léonie Bourg-Thibourg
Émilie Dequenne
as Cécile Thuillier
Michel Galabru
as Hubert Dunant
Jean-François Balmer
as Adolphe Thuillier
Vincent Winterhalter
as Louis Appia
Samuel Labarthe
as Daniel Dunant
Vania Vilers
as Pierre Bourg-Thibourg
Henri Garcin
as Général Dufour
Fritz Karl
as Colonel Delaroche
Fritz von Friedl
as von Eckert
Tom Novembre
as Napoleon III
Anne Comte
as Sophie Dunant
Jacques Michel
as Jean-Jacques Dunant
Pascal Vincent
as Samuel Lowenthal
Patrice Bornand
as Gustave Moynier
Jean-Pierre Gos
as Théodore Maunoir
Jeff El Eini
as Duc de Morny
Erwin Leder
as Soldat
Gunther Gillian
as Ulhan
Serge Falck
as Meldereiter
Bernard Escalon
as Parisian public servant
Christian Gregori
as Swiss police officer
Antoine Basler
as Adrien Nicky
