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Netflix today debuted the official trailer for the upcoming limited series, All The Light We Cannot See, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Anthony Doerr of the same name. The series will premiere globally on November 2nd on Netflix and is directed and executive produced by Shawn Levy (Stranger Things, Shadow and Bone) and written by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, Rogue Heroes).
The 4-episode series stars Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight, The Kids Are All Right), Hugh Laurie (The Night Manager, House), Louis Hoffman (Dark, The Forger), newcomers Aria Mia Loberti and Nell Sutton, Lars Eidinger (Babylon Berlin, Irma Vep), and Marion Bailey (The Crown, Allied). It recently had its world premiere at TIFF on Sunday, September 10th.
All The Light We Cannot See Synopsis
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, All The Light We Cannot See is a groundbreaking limited series that follows the story of Marie-Laure, a blind French girl and her father, Daniel LeBlanc, who flee German-occupied Paris with a legendary diamond to keep it from falling into the hands of the Nazis. Relentlessly pursued by a cruel Gestapo officer who seeks to possess the stone for his own selfish means, Marie-Laure and Daniel soon find refuge in St. Malo, where they take up residence with a reclusive uncle who transmits clandestine radio broadcasts as part of the resistance. Yet here in this once-idyllic seaside city, Marie-Laure’s path also collides inexorably with the unlikeliest of kindred spirits: Werner, a brilliant teenager enlisted by Hitler’s regime to track down illegal broadcasts, who instead shares a secret connection to Marie-Laure as well as her faith in humanity and the possibility of hope.
I’ve never done a period piece or an epic drama before. This isn’t a comedy, or an action-adventure, it isn’t populist high-gloss entertainment. But I think one of the themes that I keep coming back to in all my work is the redemptive power of connection. And in this story, human connection can be salvation…So many period pieces are magnificently crafted, but they feel somewhat austere or emotionally remote. I wanted to make a beautiful-looking period drama that was also unabashedly human and emotional. My hope is that audiences will engage with these characters and their humanity.
Director and executive produver Shawn Levy tells Netflix
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