Film· 1996· Romance

The English Patient

by Anthony Minghella

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The English Patient

Book · 1992

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Anthony Minghella's film adapts Michael Ondaatje's novel about a burned man nursed in an Italian villa at the end of the war, and his affair in the North African desert before it, giving the love story more weight than the book does.

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The English Patient

At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair. The English Patient is a 1996 epic romantic war drama film directed by Anthony Minghella from his own script based on the 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje, and produced by Saul Zaentz. The film stars Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas alongside Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Naveen Andrews and Colin Firth in supporting roles.