Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross (2007)
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...
Director: Dominique Othenin-Girard
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Thomas Jouannet as Henry Dunant |
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Noémie Kocher as Léonie Bourg-Thibourg |
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Émilie Dequenne as Cécile Thuillier |
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Michel Galabru as Hubert Dunant |
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Jean-François Balmer as Adolphe Thuillier |
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Vincent Winterhalter as Louis Appia |
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Samuel Labarthe as Daniel Dunant |
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Vania Vilers as Pierre Bourg-Thibourg |
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Henri Garcin as Général Dufour |
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Fritz Karl as Colonel Delaroche |
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Fritz von Friedl as von Eckert |
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Tom Novembre as Napoleon III |
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Anne Comte as Sophie Dunant |
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Jacques Michel as Jean-Jacques Dunant |
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Josette Chanel as Nancy Dunant |
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Angelo Kreuzberger as Luigi |
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Pascal Vincent as Samuel Lowenthal |
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Patrice Bornand as Gustave Moynier |
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Jean-Pierre Gos as Théodore Maunoir |
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Hans Steunzer as General Berthier |
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Jeff El Eini as Duc de Morny |
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Erwin Leder as Soldat |
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Marco Valenta as Stagecoach |
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Walter Mathes as Zouave |
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Gunther Gillian as Ulhan |
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Alexandra Czernin-Morzin as Woman at the dispensary |
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Geza Terner as Dragonerhauptmann |
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Terry Chladt as Austrian captain |
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Serge Falck as Meldereiter |
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Markus Hamele as Französischer Kommandant |
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Pierre Arbel as Recruiting officer |
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Bernard Escalon as Parisian public servant |
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Christian Gregori as Swiss police officer |
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Jacques Maeder as Chamberlain |
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Christiane Morand as Bank secretary |
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François Revaclier as Prospector |
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Jean Schlegel as Geologist Janssen |
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Jef Saint Martin as Serbian delegate |
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Yves Adam as Head rioter |
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Antoine Basler as Adrien Nicky |
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Saïd Seghir as Colonist spokesman |
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Yahia Bouhazem as First colonist |
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Farid Benabid as Second colonist |
| Directing | Dominique Othenin-Girard | Director |
| Writing | Claire Level | Writer |
| Writing | Claude-Michel Rome | Writer |
