 Based on the best selling biography Saint Exupery: A Biography by Stacy Schiff, SAINT-EX is an adventure film about the iconoclastic French aviator and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery, known worldwide for his best selling book The Little Prince. Based on the best selling biography Saint Exupery: A Biography by Stacy Schiff, SAINT-EX is an adventure film about the iconoclastic French aviator and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery, known worldwide for his best selling book The Little Prince. In the tradition of great movies like LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and TWELVE O CLOCK HIGH but with a magical element, SAINT-EX combines the daredevil action and camaraderie of the pioneering Airmail pilots in the 1920 s with the heroic, romantic and humorous aspects of these young men s experiences.