5.1Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross · 2007
Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross (2007) is a Drama / TV Movie film directed by Dominique Othenin-Girard, starring Thomas Jouannet, Noémie Kocher, Émilie Dequenne.
DramaTV Movie
5.1Overview
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
Thomas Jouannet, Noémie Kocher, Émilie Dequenne, Michel Galabru, Jean-François Balmer, Vincent Winterhalter, Samuel Labarthe, Vania Vilers
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What is "Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross" about?
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...
When was "Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross" released?
Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross was released in 2007.
Who stars in "Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross"?
The cast includes Thomas Jouannet, Noémie Kocher, Émilie Dequenne, Michel Galabru.
