Acting
Bruno Ganz's weathered poetry — every glance holds entire novels.
Cinematography
Desert mirages blur reality and memory like melted wax.
Direction
Tucker's debut already shows his gift for fragile masculinity.
Director
Anand Tucker
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
Eleanor Bron
Marie de Saint-Expery
Karl Johnson
Didier Daurat
Daniel Craig
Guillaumet
Anna Calder-Marshall
Moisy
Alex Kingston
Chic Party Guest
Dominic Rowan
Aeropostal Clerk
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Tunisia using actual WWII aircraft, one of which broke down and delayed filming for three days — very on-brand for Saint-Exupéry.
Released the same year as The English Patient, another doomed-desert-aviator romance, and promptly vanished into its shadow despite sharing cinematographer John Seale.
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