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