15/03/2023 - Louis Garrel, Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger lead the cast of this movie produced by Cheyenne Fédération alongside A Single Man Productions and Frakas Productions, and sold by StudioCanal

Actors Louis Garrel (© Georges Biard) and Vincent Cassel (© Georges Biard) and actress Diane Kruger (© Harald Krichel)

As of 27 February, the Argentine director living in Paris Pablo Agüero has been shooting Saint-Ex, his 6th feature film after Akelarre [+see also:
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To lead the cast, the director has assembled an all-star trio composed of Louis Garrel (recently nominated for the 2023 Best Actor César via his third directorial effort The Innocent [+see also:
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Written by the director, the story takes us back to 1930 and centres around Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, an Airmail pilot in Argentina. When his best friend who happens to be Airmail’s best pilot Henri Guillaumet disappears in the Andes, Saint-Ex decides to set out in search of him, against all odds. This impossible quest forces him to push beyond his limits, turning his capacity to dream into his greatest strength...

Saint-Ex is produced by Julien Madon and Aimée Buidine on behalf of Cheyenne Fédération, in co-production with A Single Man Productions and Belgium’s Frakas Productions and RTBF. Also pre-purchased by Canal+ and Ciné+, the film also enjoys support from the SOFICA company Sofitvcine. The ten-week shoot will take place in France (Studios de Bry-sur-Marne, Corsica and a few day in the south of the country), Patagonia and New York with Claire Mathon (awarded a César in 2020 for Portrait of a Lady On Fire [+see also:
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film profile]) heading up photography. StudioCanal will handle international sales and French distribution. 

For the record, Cheyenne Fédération are currently overseeing post-production on Funny Birds by Marco La Via and Hanna Ladoul (starring Andrea Riseborough, Morgan Saylor and Catherine Deneuve).

(Translated from French)