Saint-Ex (1996)

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82 min - Biography | Drama | Fantasy

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Poetic biography of author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Bruno Ganz	...	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
	Miranda Richardson	...	Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
	Janet McTeer	...	Genevieve de Ville-Franche
	Ken Stott	...	Prevot
	Katrin Cartlidge	...	Gabrielle de Saint-Exupéry
	Brid Brennan	...	Simone de Saint-Exupéry
	Eleanor Bron	...	Marie de Saint-Exupéry
	Karl Johnson	...	Didier Daurat
	Daniel Craig	...	Guillaumet
	Dominic Rowan	...	Aeropostal Clerk
	Anna Calder-Marshall	...	Moisy
	Joe Cottrell Boyce	...	Young Antoine
	Aidan Cottrell Boyce	...	Francois
	Nicholas Hewetson	...	French Pilot
	Alex Kingston	...	Chic Party Guest

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To the dismay of his aristocratic French family, young Antoine becomes an overseas mail pilot. He marries beautiful Spanish Consuelo and they set up house in Casablanca. Incapable of adjusting to the aviator's life, Consuelo soon flees to Paris. Antoine goes after her, they reconcile, but he refuses to give up flying. He is almost killed when his plane crashes in an attempt to break the Paris-Saigon air record. Antoine writes "The Little Prince", but is lured back to flying in order to resist the Nazis. His plane mysteriously disappears on a reconnaissance mission. Written by Markku Kuoppamäki

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