Saint-Ex is a 1997 British film biography of French

French people

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 author

Author

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-adventurer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , officially Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint Exupéry , was a French writer, poet and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of France's highest literary awards, and in 1939 was the winner of the U.S. National Book Award...

, filmed and distributed in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, and featuring Bruno Ganz

Bruno Ganz

Bruno Ganz is a Swiss actor, known for his roles as Damiel in Wings of Desire and Adolf Hitler in Downfall.- Early life :Bruno Ganz was born in Zürich to a Swiss mechanic father and a northern Italian mother. He had decided to pursue an acting career by the time he entered university...

, Eleanor Bron, and Miranda Richardson

Miranda Richardson

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. The script was by Frank Cottrell Boyce

Frank Cottrell Boyce

-Awards:*2004: Buch des Monats des Instituts für Jugendliteratur/Book of the Month by the Institute for Youth Literature , Millions*2004: Carnegie Medal, Millions*2004: Luchs des Jahres , Millions...

, while the writer's sons, Aidan and George, portrayed the Saint-Exupery brothers, Francois and Antoine, as children. The film combines elements of biography, documentary

Documentary film

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, and dramatic re-creation.