4 real historical locations · France, Germany
Based on Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, this Netflix series follows a blind French girl and a German radio operator whose lives intertwine in occupied Saint-Malo in 1944. A story of humanity amid the brutality of occupation and the war's final days.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning France, Germany.
The entire series is set in Saint-Malo during the final days of German occupation in 1944 — Werner searches for a hidden diamond while Allied bombs level the...
Saint-Malo was bombarded by American forces in August 1944 when its German garrison refused to surrender. About 80% of the medieval walled city was destroyed. The city was liberated on 17 August 1944 after two weeks o...
View location →Marie-Laure LeBlanc and her father, a locksmith at the Museum of Natural History, flee Paris as the Germans advance in June 1940, carrying the Sea of Flames ...
Germany occupied Paris on 14 June 1940. Hundreds of thousands of Parisians fled south in the Exodus — one of the largest civilian evacuations in history. The museum did safeguard its rarest specimens.
View location →Orphan Werner Pfennig grows up in the mining district of Essen, teaching himself radio engineering from salvaged parts — a gift that will take him to the Naz...
The Ruhr mining towns produced both Germany's industrial output and the working-class boys conscripted into the Wehrmacht. The Zollverein colliery is now a UNESCO World Heritage site.
View location →Marie-Laure hides in her great-uncle's house broadcasting resistance radio transmissions as Allied bombing reduces the fortified port to rubble. Werner trian...
Saint-Malo was besieged from August 1944. Allied bombing and the German garrison's refusal to surrender destroyed 80% of the medieval city. It was painstakingly rebuilt stone by stone after the war.
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