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Duration: 2 hours, 34 minutes

Romantic epic. During the end of World War II a badly burned man lies in an abandoned Italian monastery, watched over by a French Canadian nurse. Nobody knows who he is or how he received his injuries. Then, the 'English patient' tells his tragic story of a passionate affair with a married woman, and of a betrayal.

Last on

Tue 27 Nov 2012 00:25 BBC One Scotland only

Credits

Count Laszlo de Almasy
Ralph Fiennes
Katherine Clifton
Kristin Scott Thomas
Hana
Juliette Binoche
Caravaggio
Willem Dafoe
Kip
Naveen Andrews
Geoffrey Clifton
Colin Firth
Madox
Julian Wadham
Major Muller
Jurgen Prochnow
Sgt Hardy
Kevin Whately
Fenelon-Barnes
Clive Merrison
D'Agostino
Nino Castelnuovo
Fouad
Hichem Rostom
Director
Anthony Minghella
Producer
Saul Zaentz
Writer
Anthony Minghella
Writer
Michael Ondaatje
Composer
Gabriel Yared
Director of photography
John Seale

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