The English patient [videorecording] / Miramax Films presents a Saul Zaentz production, an Anthony Minghella film ; screenplay by Anthony Minghella ; produced by Saul Zaentz ; directed by Anthony Minghella.
Title from container. Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth, Julian Wadham, Jürgen Prochnow. Release date: Jan. 31, 2012. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1996. Based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje Special features: Audio commentaries with screenwriter/director Anthony Minghella, producer Saul Zaentz, and author Michael Ondaatje; About Michael Ondaatje; From novel to screenplay: Interviews with cast and crew; The formidable Saul Zaentz; A historical look at the real Count Almasy; Filmmaker conversations with Anthony Minghella, Saul Zaentz, Michael Ondaatje, and film editor Walter Murch; The work of Stuart Craig, production designer; The eyes of Phil Bray, still photographer; Master class with Anthony Minghella: Deleted scenes; CBS documentary: The making of The English patient.
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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