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Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross
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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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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Genre:Drama, TV Movie
Written By:Claire Level, Claude-Michel Rome
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Runtime:99 minutes
Studio:Bohemian Films, Pale Blue Productions, Dune, TSR, Établissement National de Télévision (ENTV), ARTE, France 2, ERT
Cast
Dominique Othenin-Girard
Director
Thomas Jouannet
Henry Dunant
Noémie Kocher
Léonie Bourg-Thibourg
Émilie Dequenne
Cécile Thuillier
Michel Galabru
Hubert Dunant
Jean-François Balmer
Adolphe Thuillier
Vincent Winterhalter
Louis Appia
Samuel Labarthe
Daniel Dunant
Vania Vilers
Pierre Bourg-Thibourg
Henri Garcin
Général Dufour
Fritz Karl
Colonel Delaroche
Fritz von Friedl
von Eckert
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