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...
as Henry Dunant
as Léonie Bourg-Thibourg
as Cécile Thuillier
as Hubert Dunant
as Adolphe Thuillier
as Louis Appia
as Daniel Dunant
as Pierre Bourg-Thibourg
as Général Dufour
as Colonel Delaroche
as von Eckert
as Napoleon III
as Sophie Dunant
as Jean-Jacques Dunant
as Nancy Dunant
as Luigi
as Samuel Lowenthal
as Gustave Moynier
as Théodore Maunoir
as General Berthier
as Duc de Morny
as Soldat
as Stagecoach
as Zouave
as Ulhan
as Woman at the dispensary
as Dragonerhauptmann
as Austrian captain
as Meldereiter
as Französischer Kommandant
as Recruiting officer
as Parisian public servant
as Swiss police officer
as Chamberlain
as Bank secretary
as Prospector
as Geologist Janssen
as Serbian delegate
as Head rioter
as Adrien Nicky
as Colonist spokesman
as First colonist
as Second colonist
