The English Patient
About The English Patient
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.
The English Patient is a 1996 romance war film directed by Anthony Minghella. At 162 minutes long, it arrived in November 1996.
The film is filed under desert, airplane, amnesia, and tragedy.
Ralph Fiennes stars as Almásy, Juliette Binoche as Hana, Willem Dafoe as David Caravaggio, and Kristin Scott Thomas as Katharine Clifton. The screenplay is by Anthony Minghella. Produced by The Saul Zaentz Company. In the United States it streams on fuboTV, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, and Paramount Plus Essential.
The Pianist, The Mummy, and Memoirs of a Geisha make useful companions to The English Patient, all filed under prisoner of war and world war ii. TMDB voters put it at 7.1 out of 10 across 2,476 votes and it carries a R rating.