Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross (Henry Dunant: Du rouge sur la croix) 17 years old

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...

Credits

Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross Cast

Name Character
Michel Galabru He was 84, 93 years old when he died as Hubert Dunant
Émilie Dequenne She was 25, now 42 years old as Cécile Thuillier
Thomas Jouannet He was 36, now 53 years old as Henry Dunant
Noémie Kocher as Léonie Bourg-Thibourg

Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross Crew

Name Department
Claude-Michel Rome as Writer. He was 54 (now 71) years old Writing
Claire Level as Writer. Writing
Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross poster
Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross (17 years)

  • Release day: Saturday, February 03, 2007