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Release Date: 1996

Cast: Juliette Binoche, Kevin Whately, Clive Merrison, Torri Higginson, Jürgen Prochnow, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Hichem Rostom, Naveen Andrews, Liisa Repo-Martell, Kristin Scott Thomas, Willem Dafoe ...MORE

Cast: Juliette Binoche, Kevin Whately, Clive Merrison, Torri Higginson, Jürgen Prochnow, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Hichem Rostom, Naveen Andrews, Liisa Repo-Martell, Kristin Scott Thomas, Willem Dafoe, Peter Rühring, Geordie Johnson, Nino Castelnuovo, Julian Wadham ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Drama Film, Period Piece, Romance Film, Film Adaptation, Romantic Drama, War Film

The English Patient is a 1996 romantic drama film based on the novel of the same name by Sri Lankan-Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje. The film, written for the screen and directed by Anthony Minghella, won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Ondaatje worked closely with the filmmakers. Set before and during World War II, The English Patient is a story of love, fate, misunderstanding and healing. Told in a series of flashbacks, the film can best be explained by unwinding it into its two chronological phases. The film is set during World War II and depicts a critically burned man,... MORE

The English Patient is a 1996 romantic drama film based on the novel of the same name by Sri Lankan-Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje. The film, written for the screen and directed by Anthony Minghella, won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Ondaatje worked closely with the filmmakers. Set before and during World War II, The English Patient is a story of love, fate, misunderstanding and healing. Told in a series of flashbacks, the film can best be explained by unwinding it into its two chronological phases. The film is set during World War II and depicts a critically burned man, at first known only as "the English patient," who is being looked after by Hana (Juliette Binoche), a French-Canadian nurse in an abandoned Italian monastery. The patient is reluctant to disclose any personal information but through a series of flashbacks, viewers are allowed into his past. It is slowly revealed that he is in fact a Hungarian geographer, Count László de Almásy (Ralph Fiennes), who was making a map of the Sahara Desert, and whose affair with a married woman, Katharine Clifton (Kristin Scott Thomas), ultimately brought about his present situation. As the patient remembers more, David LESS