Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross

The story

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...

Cast

T Thomas JouannetHenry Dunant N Noémie KocherLéonie Bourg-Thibourg É Émilie DequenneCécile Thuillier M Michel GalabruHubert Dunant J Jean-François BalmerAdolphe Thuillier V Vincent WinterhalterLouis Appia S Samuel LabartheDaniel Dunant V Vania VilersPierre Bourg-Thibourg H Henri GarcinGénéral Dufour F Fritz KarlColonel Delaroche F Fritz von Friedlvon Eckert T Tom NovembreNapoleon III

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A Anne ComteSophie Dunant J Jacques MichelJean-Jacques Dunant J Josette ChanelNancy Dunant A Angelo KreuzbergerLuigi P Pascal VincentSamuel Lowenthal P Patrice BornandGustave Moynier J Jean-Pierre GosThéodore Maunoir H Hans SteunzerGeneral Berthier J Jeff El EiniDuc de Morny E Erwin LederSoldat M Marco ValentaStagecoach W Walter MathesZouave G Gunther GillianUlhan A Alexandra Czernin-MorzinWoman at the dispensary G Geza TernerDragonerhauptmann T Terry ChladtAustrian captain S Serge FalckMeldereiter M Markus HameleFranzösischer Kommandant P Pierre ArbelRecruiting officer B Bernard EscalonParisian public servant C Christian GregoriSwiss police officer J Jacques MaederChamberlain C Christiane MorandBank secretary F François RevaclierProspector J Jean SchlegelGeologist Janssen J Jef Saint MartinSerbian delegate Y Yves AdamHead rioter A Antoine BaslerAdrien Nicky S Saïd SeghirColonist spokesman Y Yahia BouhazemFirst colonist F Farid BenabidSecond colonist