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.

• Cast: Guy Marchand, Horst Frank, Armand Mestral, Ricardo Palacios, Sophie Renoir, Guy Verda, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Michel Beaune