L'Homme de Suez

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.

• Christian-JaqueDirector
• Jacques RobertWriter
• Vladimir CosmaOriginal Music Composer
• Pierre Gaspard-HuitWriter

• Guy MarchandFerdinand de Lesseps
• Horst FrankLinant-Bey, engineer and minister of the Viceroy of Egypt
• Armand MestralNapoléon III
• Ricardo PalaciosMohamed Saïd
• Sophie RenoirHélène Bragard
• Guy VerdaCogolin
• Maria Rosaria OmaggioEugénie de Montijo
• Michel BeauneClot-Bey
• Hugo AlarconSaïd child
• Bernard CaraFather Enfantin
• Michel RuhlHoart
• Gabriel CattandMimaut