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.
as Ferdinand de Lesseps
as Linant-Bey, engineer and minister of the Viceroy of Egypt
as Napoléon III
as Mohamed Saïd
as Hélène Bragard
as Cogolin
as Eugénie de Montijo
as Clot-Bey
as Saïd child
as Father Enfantin
as Hoart
as Mimaut
as Mehemet Ali
as Mr. de Bragard
as Lavalley
