The English Patient (1996)

The English Patient (1996) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Australian Film Institute
BAFTA Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
European Film Awards
Golden Globes
Goya Awards
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
168 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1996 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Anthony Minghella

Written By:
Michael Ondaatje
Anthony Minghella

Actors:
Ralph Fiennes ..... Almásy
Juliette Binoche ..... Hana
Willem Dafoe ..... Caravaggio
Kristin Scott Thomas ..... Katharine Clifton
Naveen Andrews ..... Kip
Colin Firth ..... Geoffrey Clifton
Julian Wadham ..... Madox
Jürgen Prochnow ..... Major Muller
Kevin Whately ..... Hardy
Clive Merrison ..... Fenelon-Barnes
Nino Castelnuovo ..... D'Agostino
Hichem Rostom ..... Fouad
Peter Rühring ..... Bermann
Geordie Johnson ..... Oliver
Torri Higginson ..... Mary
Liisa Repo-Martell ..... Jan
Raymond Coulthard ..... Rupert Douglas
Philip Whitchurch ..... Corporal Dade
Lee Ross ..... Spalding
Anthony Smee ..... Beach Interrogation Officer
Matthew Ferguson ..... Young Canadian Soldier
Jason Done ..... Kiss Me Soldier
Roger Morlidge ..... Sergeant, Desert Train
Simon Sherlock ..... Private, Desert Train
Sebastian Schipper ..... Interrogation Room Soldier
Fritz Eggert ..... Interrogation Room Soldier
Sonia Mankaï ..... Arab Nurse
Rim Turkhi ..... Aicha
Sebastian Rudolph ..... Officer In Square
Thoraya Sehill ..... Interpreter In Square
Sondos Belhassen ..... Woman With Baby In Square
Dominic Mafham ..... Officer, El Taj
Gregor Truter ..... Corporal, El Taj
Salah Miled ..... Bedouin Doctor
Abdellatif Hamrouni ..... Ancient Arab
Samy Azaiez ..... Kamal
Habib Chetoui ..... Al Auf
Philippa Day ..... Officer's Wife
Amanda Walker ..... Lady Hampton
Paul Kant ..... Sir Ronald Hampton

Synopsis:

October 1944 in war torn Italy. Hana, a French-Canadian nurse working in a mobile army medical unit, feels like everything she loves in life dies on her. Because of the difficulty traveling and the dangers, especially as the landscape is still heavily booby-trapped with mines, Hana volunteers to stay behind at a church to care solely for a dying semi-amnesiac patient, who is badly burned and disfigured. She agrees to catch up to the rest of the unit after he dies. All the patient remembers is that he is English and that he is married. Their solitude is disrupted with the arrival at the church of fellow Canadian David Caravaggio, part of the Intelligence Service, who is certain that he knows the patient as a man who cooperated with the Germans. Caravaggio believes that the patient's memory is largely in tact and that he is running away from his past, in part or in its entirety. The patient does open up about his past, all surrounding his work as a cartographer in North Africa, which was interrupted by the war. He may not be running from his work as a spy for the Germans as Caravaggio believes, but rather the memory of an affair he had with married Katherine Clifton, the love of his life, and the memory of a promise not totally fulfilled. Hana may also test her theory of her fates with love and death as she embarks on a relationship of her own with Kip Singh, a Sikh from India, whose unit has camped on the now overgrown lawn of the church. Their work entails sweeping for and diffusing mines, the discovery of one such mine which had earlier saved her life.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 28 October, 2021.