SAINT-EXUPÉRY DISAPPEARED IN 1944 — HIS WIFE REMAINED SILENT FOR 35 YEARS
In 1998, a fisherman from Marseille pulled a silver bracelet from the bottom of the Mediterranean. On it, a name: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. And a word: Consuelo.
What happened on July 31, 1944, when the pilot of The Little Prince took off for the last time—and never returned?
In this documentary, we retrace Saint-Exupéry's entire life: his childhood shattered by the deaths of his father and brother, the crashes in the Sahara, his tumultuous love for Consuelo—the woman who inspired the rose—the mistresses who kept his secrets, his exile in New York, the birth of the most translated book in the world, and that final flight, the mystery of which was only solved half a century later.
A German pilot confessed. The sea yielded fragments. His body, however, was never found.
📖 Sources: Stacy Schiff, Mémoires de la Rose, Aéropostale archives, underwater reports 2000–2004.
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