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The English Patient

Sweeping romantic epic set at the end of the Second World War. A badly burned and unidentified pilot recounts a doomed love affair to the nurse tending him.

Romantic epic. During the end of World War II a badly burned man lies in an abandoned Italian monastery, watched over by a French Canadian nurse. Nobody knows who he is or how he received his injuries. Then, the 'English patient' tells his tragic story of a passionate affair with a married woman, and of a betrayal.

2 hours, 33 minutes

Last on

Fri 15 Aug 2014 23:35

Credits

Role Contributor
Director Anthony Minghella
Count Laszlo de AlmΓ΅sy Ralph Fiennes
Hana Juliette Binoche
Katharine Clifton Kristin Scott Thomas
David Caravaggio Willem Dafoe
Geoffrey Clifton Colin Firth
Fenelon-Barnes Clive Merrison
Major Muller Jurgen Prochnow
Kip Naveen Andrews
Madox Julian Wadham
Sergeant Hardy Kevin Whately
D'Agostino Nino Castelnuovo
Fouad Hichem Rostom
Corporal Dade Philip Whitchurch
Spalding Lee Ross
Writer Anthony Minghella
Author Michael Ondaatje
Producer Saul Zaentz
Composer Gabriel Yared
Director of photography John Seale

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