The English Patient (1996)

Written by Michael Ondaatje, Anthony Minghella

Directed by Anthony Minghella

Production Year: 1996

Rating: 15 Certificate

Filmed in Colour

In the final days of the Second World War, a young nurse (Juliette Binoche) tends to a man dying of horrific burns in a crumbling Italian villa. The doomed patient cannot remember anything about who he is or how he got there, until he sees a battered copy of Herodotus that was found with him. Slowly, through flashbacks, the pieces of his life come together.

He is Count Almasy (Ralph Fiennes), a mapmaker and adventurer, who entered into a fiercely passionate affair with a married woman (Kristin Scott Thomas) before the war. Their romance plays out against the dusty backdrop of the Sahara, but soon spirals into unimaginable tragedy.

Fantastic performances, spectacular cinematography and flawless directing by the late Anthony Minghella are just a few of the reasons why The English Patient scored an impressive nine Oscars. One of cinema's greatest romantic dramas, it's a real weepie.

Highly recommended.

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Cast

Ralph FiennesAlmásy
Juliette BinocheHana
Willem DafoeCaravaggio
Kristin Scott-ThomasKatharine Clifton
Naveen AndrewsKip
Image for Colin FirthColin FirthGeoffrey Clifton
Julian WadhamMadox
Jürgen ProchnowMajor Muller
Image for Kevin WhatelyKevin WhatelyHardy
Clive MerrisonFenelon-Barnes
Nino CastelnuovoD'Agostino
Hichem RostomFouad
Peter RühringBermann
Geordie JohnsonOliver
Image for Torri HigginsonTorri HigginsonMary

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