“All the Light We Cannot See” Not only does it leave viewers shocked by the story of the young blind Marie-Laure LeBlancuna and the soldier Werner Pfennig, whose paths cross in the war, also in the settings where this drama takes place. Well, in the following paragraphs, we detail the places where we saw all the characters.
Before we point out that this production marks the acting debut of Aria Mia Loberti, who in real life is blind, like Nell Sutton, the actress who played the same role when she was a child.
THE PLACES WHERE “THE LIGHT YOU COULD NOT SEE” WAS FILMED
Below are the places where the miniseries released on Netflix on November 2, 2023 was filmed, according to Radio Times.
SAINT-MALO, FRANCE
Saint-Malo, a port in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France, is the most important location where “The Light You Can’t See” was filmed.. Precisely here, the Allied forces and German troops clashed between August and September 1944, something that the miniseries shows us.
In fiction, we see this scenario when shots are taken on the seashore in northern France. Because the port city was partially destroyed by bombing and later rebuilt, the book’s author, Anthony Doerr, felt it was best to film there because he felt that It still looks like France in the 40s.
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
The streets of Budapest, Hungary, passed off as 1940s Paris, although there is no reason. The places where “The Light You Can’t See” was filmed are the Festetics Palace, the Zichy Castle in Sopoly and the Exchange Palace.
It should be noted that the shots of Vécsey Street represented the iconic Champs-Elysées in Paris. To place it in the series, we saw it in the first episode when Parisians see Nazi soldiers entering their city.
VILLEFRANCHE-DE-ROUERGUE, FRANCE
Villefranche-de-Rouergue, France, was used for some exterior shots of the streets of Saint-Malo like the bombings and the liberation of the city.
It is known that the city had to be adapted to production needs, although it was also chosen for its similarities with Saint-Malo before the Second World War, Radio Times mentions.