The English patient [dvd] / Miramax Films presents a Saul Zaentz production ; an Anthony Minghella film ; screenplay by Anthony Minghella ; produced by Saul Zaentz ; directed by Anthony Minghella.
Based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje. 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). Originally produced as a motion picture in 1996. Disc One: Special Features: Feature Commentary with director Anthony Minghella; Feature Commentary with director and screenwriter Anthony Minghella, producer Saul Zaentz, and English Patient author Michael Ondaatje. Disc Two: Bonus Material: About Michael Ondaatje (22 min.); From Novel to Screenplay: Interviews with Cast and Crew (8 min.); The Formidable Saul Zaentz (2 min.); A Historical Look at the Real Count Almasy (9 min.); Filmmaker Conversations (79 min.); The Work of Stuart Craig: Production Designer (4 min.); The Eyes of Phil Bray: Still Photographer (3 min.); Master Class with Anthony Minghella: Deleted Scenes (20 min.); Black and White to Colour: The Making of The English Patient (53 min.); Reviews of The English Patient [text feature]; Sneak Peeks [previews] (9 min.).
Contents:
Opening credits -- Last requests -- Questions and answers -- Minefield -- Hana stays behind -- Story of Candaules -- New houseguest -- Dangerous Bach -- Writings on the wall -- Newfound feelings -- Katherine remains -- Sandstorm -- Reading lessons -- Unexpected visitor -- Illicit liaisons -- Plan of surprise -- Gift for Kip -- Clearing out -- Torture room -- Drunken spectacle -- Volume of light -- Defusing the bomb -- It's raining -- Disastrous celebration -- Caravaggio's departure -- Death flight -- In need of help -- Train trip -- Reflections -- Fatal injection -- End credits.
Summary:
At the end of World War II, a mysterious, horribly burned man who claims not to remember his name, known only as the "English patient," lies near death in an Italian villa. He is cared for by a quietly desperate young nurse, Hana, herself a victim of the war. With her at the villa are Kip, a young Sikh bomb-disposal expert, and a shadowy thief with bandaged hands named Caravaggio. The key to the burned man's past may lie in his commonplace book, a volume of Herodotus, and its intimations of the sacred whirlwind of a great, mysterious, passionate, and tragically doomed love, which trapped two unsuspecting people, forever.
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