Film · Documentary, History

Paname: The Ghost of the Great Frenchman (2018)

Ferdinand de Lesseps, known as “The Great Frenchman”, will embark in the greatest adventure of his life: To unite the Pacific and Atlantic oceans through a Canal in the Isthmus of Panama – without knowing that this will cost him his reputation, thousands of innocent lives and the biggest financial scandal of all time, up to that point: the famous “Scandal of Panama”. Today, the French capital is known as “Paname”.

Director

Daniel Zapateiro

Writers

Daniel Zapateiro, Nicolas Russeil

Country

France

Language

French

Release date

November 21, 2018

Original title

Paname, le fantôme du Grand Français