Overview
The plan to build a large shipping canal between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea had been around for a long time. But it took a man with the drive of Ferdinand de Lesseps to make it happen.
Cast
- Guy Marchand as Ferdinand de Lesseps
- Horst Frank as Linant-Bey, engineer and minister of the Viceroy of Egypt
- Armand Mestral as Napoléon III
- Ricardo Palacios as Mohamed Saïd
- Sophie Renoir as Hélène Bragard
- Guy Verda as Cogolin
- Maria Rosaria Omaggio as Eugénie de Montijo
- Michel Beaune as Clot-Bey
- Hugo Alarcon as Saïd child
- Bernard Cara as Father Enfantin