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Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de Lesseps GCSI (French: [də lesɛps]; 19 November 1805 – 7 December 1894) was a French diplomat and later developer of the Suez Canal, which in 1869 joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas, substantially reducing sailing distances and times between Europe and East Asia.
He attempted to repeat this success with an effort to build a Panama Canal at sea-level during the 1880s, but the project was devastated by epidemics of malaria and yellow fever in the area, as well as beset by financial problems, and the planned de Lesseps Panama Canal was never completed. Eventually, the project was bought out by the United States who solved the medical problems and changed the design to a non-sea-level canal with locks. It was completed in 1914..
Actors: Guy Marchand (actor), Fred Personne (actor), Ricardo Palacios (actor), Virgílio Castelo (actor), Christian Kohlund (actor), Armand Mestral (actor), Gianni Musy (actor), Gabriel Cattand (actor), Michel Beaune (actor), Jean Davy (actor), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Van Doude (actor), Eduardo Fajardo (actor), Horst Frank (actor), Franco Ressel (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Paul Verhoeven (director), Peter Pasetti (actor), Hans Putz (actor), Horst Tappert (actor), Paul Verhoeven (actor), Volker von Collande (actor), Rosemarie Fendel (actress), Gisela Uhlen (actress), Maria Matray (writer), Martin Benrath (actor), Paul Hoffmann (actor), Susanne Uhlen (actress), Karl Maria Schley (actor), Peter Dornseif (actor), Answald Krüger (writer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Alphonse Martell (actor), Alberto Morin (actor), Sidney Blackmer (actor), Miles Mander (actor), Leon Ames (actor), Fred Malatesta (actor), Jean De Briac (actor), J. Edward Bromberg (actor), Nigel Bruce (actor), Robert Graves (actor), Brandon Hurst (actor), Egon Brecher (actor), Frank Lackteen (actor), Albert Conti (actor), Leonard Mudie (actor),
Plot: De Lesseps is a young aristocrat who conceives the idea for the Suez Canal. When Napoleon fails him, the British show interest. Though the production values make the film entertaining its historical content is generally agreed to be awful.
Keywords: 1850s, alexandria-egypt, ambition, arc-de-triomphe-paris, award, betrayal, broken-promise, burial, camel, canal