L'Homme de Suez (1984)
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.
- First aired
- 1984-05-03
- Genres
- Action & Adventure
- Seasons
- 1 (6 episodes)
- Status
- Ended
- Directed / written by
- Christian-Jaque
- TMDB rating
- 7.7/10 from 3 votes
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
- Michel Ruhl as Hoart
- Gabriel Cattand as Mimaut