Director: Pablo Agüero
Long before he wrote The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry flew mail routes across the Andes — and this French-Belgian drama follows the search that nearly cost him everything.
What is Saint Exupery Die Geschichte vor dem kleinen Prinzen about?
Argentina, 1930. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry works as an airmail pilot for a fledgling postal service, flying routes that cut through some of the most punishing terrain in South America. When Henri Guillaumet, the service's most skilled pilot and Saint-Exupéry's closest friend, vanishes over the Andes mid-flight, the odds of finding him alive shrink by the hour. Refusing to accept the loss, Saint-Exupéry launches a search that pushes his flying, his nerve, and his sense of purpose past anything he has faced before. The ordeal reshapes how he sees flight itself, turning a job built on routine and risk into the raw material for the imagination that would later produce his most famous writing.
Cast & crew
Louis Garrel takes the lead as Saint-Exupéry, with Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, and Benoît Magimel filling out a cast drawn from across French cinema. Director Pablo Agüero frames the aerial search sequences with an eye for scale, contrasting the vastness of the mountains against the fragility of the early aircraft involved.
Context & significance
The film draws directly on the real early years of the Aéropostale airmail service, whose pilots pioneered commercial air routes across South America at enormous personal risk. Guillaumet's disappearance and rescue were formative events in Saint-Exupéry's life, later echoed in his own writing about flight, isolation, and endurance before The Little Prince made him a household name.
Where & how to watch
Saint-Exupéry is available to watch on K-Time with a free account login, with both a Farsi dub and Farsi subtitles included. The platform's Farsi-first interface makes it easy for Persian-speaking viewers to browse and settle into a French period drama without any language barrier.