The English Patient

The English Patient

  • Director: Anthony Minghella
  • Writer: Michael Ondaatje,Anthony Minghella
  • Countries of origin: United States, United Kingdom
  • Language: English, German, Italian, Arabic
  • Release date: December 6, 1996
  • Runtime: 2h 42min
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital, DTS-Stereo
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Англійський пацієнт
  • The film "The English Patient" is directed by Anthony Minghella CBE and is based on the novel of the same name by writer Philip Michael Ondaatje .
    The film is co-starred by Ralph Fiennes , Kristin Scott Thomas , Juliette Binoche and others. The film was released in the United States on November 6, 1996   .
    With war and desert as the background, the film interprets a love tragedy that spans time and space.
    During World War II, a British plane was shot down by the Germans while flying over the Sahara Desert . The pilot on the plane suffered burns to his face. The locals rescued him and sent him to the Allied Field Hospital.
    Because of the injury, the pilot lost his memory and couldn't remember who he was, so he could only be called "The English Patient".

    Details

    • Release date December 6, 1996
    • Filming locations Mahdia, Tunisia
    • Production companies Miramax, Tiger Moth Productions

    Box office

    Budget

    $27,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $78,676,425

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $278,439

    Gross worldwide

    $231,976,425

    Movie reviews

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    • By Arely 2022-04-24 07:01:03

      love, desert, wind

      The title comes from Lao Ye.

      He made tapes of British patients, which he sometimes listened to before bedtime. The back of the tape reads love, desert, wind.
      The patient is a desert, lonely and calm. K is wind, warm and turbulent. Love is the combination of desert and wind, and the wind and sand fill the sky.
      There is no doubt that this is a love movie. Minghella is talking about love, two loves that happened in war, different countries, different races, and different skin...

    • By Onie 2022-04-24 07:01:03

      love, soul-stirring

      I love it, 
       I've watched ENGLISH PATIENT many times, and recently I started to organize the script and memorize the script.
        For a long time, I have been deeply impressed by the two shots of Asan. One is the flashing lights along the way, gradually unfolding, HANA is chasing after a jump with a shell, towards happiness. The second, of course, is to open the sparkling fire, rippling in the air, and the firelight reflects the exquisite murals on the wall, which is extremely happy. Heh,...

    • By Carli 2022-04-23 07:01:27

      bit by bit

      Time is used to wander, the
      body is used to love,
      life is used to forget, the
      soul is used to sing. The
      ancient gypsies said the above words.
       
      There's not much to say about the movie. Because the film has been recognized by the world.
      On the train coming back from Beijing, I accidentally saw that passage.
      It took 6 hours to think.
      Think of this movie. It seems to fit somewhat. Some tacit understanding.
       
      War, love, death, country. Layers....

    • By Benny 2022-04-23 07:01:27

      Of course, you idiot. I always wear it.

      After the plane crashed, Almasy rescued Katharine from the plane, held her all the way and took her to the cave.


      - You've been carrying it (needle hoop)?
      - Of course. fool. I always carry, I always love you. (Of course, you idiot. I always wear it. I have always worn it. I have always loved you.)




      - You'll be fine when I get back from rescue.
      -You promised me? I don't want to die here, I don't want to die in the desert. I'm going to...

    • By Jane 2022-04-23 07:01:27

      An unbearable movie, Oscar inspired the greed of the flesh

      The rhythm is long, especially I don't like that many people have raised the extramarital affair to a great height. Is the love between the male lead and the female lead love? It's just a simple vent of primitive hormones. The movie doesn't highlight their love process. It's more like a bowl of passionate fast food for a pickup girl in a bar. This kind of film can win an Oscar, and I think I can also be an Oscar judge. This film may remove the third party, and replace the husband played by...

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    • By Natalie 2023-09-09 12:57:59

      Anthony Minghella made the Ralph Fiennes standing in the wind so charming, and the endless desert presented the heart ashes. My favorite shot is the sun dancing between the tree branches at the end. It's just that I'm not used to telling a love story in three hours. I thought it would be as intense and moving as Pearl...

    • By Lois 2023-08-27 18:16:02

      For Gothenburg, for the named collarbone, for the Aymarsh...

    • By Rowan 2023-08-26 13:39:54

      My darling. I'm waiting for you. How long is a day in the dark? Or a week? The fire is gone now. And I'm cold, horribly cold. I really...

    • By Jimmy 2023-07-28 12:43:49

      I don't know why I always feel a little bored when I watch it....

    • By Jaquelin 2023-07-09 15:46:29

      In fact, love and faith are not worth death, we talk about things we have never experienced and understand, inertia and empty waste fill the two-dimensional world like oxygen. It doesn't take a whole night to know a man, as long as he is palpable, speaks, smiles, like a sturdy stalk that supports a leafy tree. It turns out that what you like is Lord Voldemort, who does not rely on astrology, but only acts...

    Movie plot

    At the end of World War II, in the ruins of a villa in the mountains of northern Florence, Italy, lies a mysterious man called the "British Patient". He was rescued by a Bedouin herder who has no concept of borders from a burning airplane. Live, no one knows his true identity. The female nurse Hannah, Karavaggio and a Sikh engineer named Kip live with him.
    It turned out that his name was Emmashu, a Hungarian historian. During his...
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    Background creation

    The film "The British Patient" is adapted from the award-winning novel of the same name by Michael Ondajie, a famous writer living in Toronto, Canada. The story told in the novel is a love tragedy that spans time and space with war and desert as the background. The film cost 27 million US dollars. 200 people from the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Italy, France, Germany, Tunisia and the United Nations participated in the...
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    Movie quotes

    • Katharine Clifton: Am I K in your book? I think I must be.

    • Almásy: I am just a bit of toast, my friend.

    • Katharine Clifton: You speak so many bloody languages, and you never want to talk.