The English Patient

(1996)

Synopsis

Nine Oscars---including Best Picture---went to this superb romantic WWII drama starring Ralph Fiennes. Juliette Binoche plays a compassionate nurse who takes her horribly injured, amnesiac patient (Fiennes) to a monastery to die in peace. A book the man carries reveals the story of his life before the war and explains the chain of events that brought him to his fate, including his affair with a married woman (Kristin Scott Thomas). Willem Dafoe, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth.

Directors

Anthony Minghella, Gary Jones, Anthony Minghella, Saul Zaentz, Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, Steve Andrews, Paul Zaentz, John Seale, Gabriel Yared, Jim Dowdall, Michelle Guish, Ann Roth, David Rubin, David Parker, Chris Newman, Pat Jackson, Anthony Minghella, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, James Austin, Carolyn Choa, Paul Zaentz, Walter Murch

Production year

1996

Rating

R

Studio

Miramax Films

Runtime

162 minutes

Cast

Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Firth