Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross

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Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross

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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...

Date: 02/03/2007

Rating: 5.0

Cast: Thomas Jouannet, Noémie Kocher, Émilie Dequenne, Michel Galabru, Jean-François Balmer, Vincent Winterhalter, Samuel Labarthe, Vania Vilers, Henri Garcin, Fritz Karl, Fritz von Friedl, Tom Novembre, Anne Comte, Jacques Michel, Josette Chanel, Angelo Kreuzberger, Pascal Vincent, Patrice Bornand, Jean-Pierre Gos, Hans Steunzer, Jeff El Eini, Erwin Leder, Marco Valenta, Walter Mathes, Gunther Gillian, Alexandra Czernin-Morzin, Geza Terner, Terry Chladt, Serge Falck, Markus Hamele, Pierre Arbel, Bernard Escalon, Christian Gregori, Jacques Maeder, Christiane Morand, François Revaclier, Jean Schlegel, Jef Saint Martin, Yves Adam, Antoine Basler, Saïd Seghir, Yahia Bouhazem, Farid Benabid

Thomas Jouannet