Netflix has released a new trailer for the upcoming limited series based on Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See.
Doerr’s 2014 novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal, follows Marie-Laure, a blind girl in France during World War II, and Werner, a German soldier and radio operator who listens to Marie-Laure’s radio transmissions. In a starred review, a Kirkus critic wrote of the book, “Doerr captures the sights and sounds of wartime and focuses, refreshingly, on the innate goodness of his major characters.”
The new trailer opens with shots of Aria Mia Loberti as Marie-Laure and Louis Hofmann as Werner, as the latter says in a voiceover, “There was this voice I listened to on the radio, and I will never know who she is.”
It cuts to a scene of Loberti on a beach, while she says in another voiceover, “Wherever in the world you are, I pray that the signal from this radio is reaching you. If you can hear me, remember: Darkness lasts not even for one second when you turn on the light.”
All the Light We Cannot See also stars Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, Lars Eidinger, and Marion Bailey. The series is directed by Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) and written by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders).
It premieres on Netflix Nov. 2.
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
