The English Patient [Blu-ray]

Director: Anthony Minghella

Overview

After the beginning of WW II, a small plane crashes in a remote area of the North African desert. A seriously burned Englishman and a Canadian nurse remain behind in a Tuscan monastery. Another Canadian appears, followed by two more refugees. Eventually the tragic secrets of the characters are revealed.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/31/2012
UPC:	0031398147626
Original Release:	1996
Rating:	R
Source:	Miramax Lionsgate
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	2:42:00
Sales rank:	13,194

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

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Ralph Fiennes	Count Almaszy
Juliette Binoche	Hana
Willem Dafoe	David Caravaggio
Kristin Scott Thomas	Katherine Clifton
Colin Firth	Geoffrey Clifton
Julian Wadham	Madox
Naveen Andrews	Kip
Kevin Whately	Sgt. Hardy
Clive Merrison	Fenelon-Barnes
Nino Castelnuovo	D'Agostino
Hichem Roston	Fouad
Peter Ruhring	Bermann
Geordie Johnson	Oliver
Lothaire Bluteau	Actor
Torri Higginson	Mary
Clive Morrison	Fenelon-Barnes
Lisa Repo-Martell	Jan,Actor
Raymond Coulthard	Rupert Douglas
Philip Whitchurch	Corporal Dade
Lee Ross	Spalding
Anthony Smee	Beach Interrogation Officer
Matthew Ferguson	Young Canadian Soldier,Actor
Jason Done	Kiss Me Soldier
Roger Morlidge	Sergeant, Desert Train
Simon Sherlock	Private, Desert Train,Actor
Sebastian Schipper	Interrogation Room Soldier
Fritz Eggert	Interrogation Room Soldier
Sonia Mankai	Arab Nurse
Phillipa Day	Actor,Officer's Wife
Rim Turki	Aicha
Sebastian Rudolph	Officer in Square
Thoraya Sehill	Interpreter in Square
Sondess Belhassen	Woman with Baby in Square
Dominic Mafham	Officer, El Taj
Gregor Truter	Corporal, El Taj
Salah Miled	Bedouin Doctor
Abdellatif Hamrouni	Ancient Arab
Samy Azaiez	Kamal
Habib Chetoui	Al Auf
Amanda Walker	Lady Hampton
Phillipa Bay	officer's wife
J?rgen Prochnow	Major Muller
Paul Kant	Sir Ronnie Hampton
Hichem Rostom	Actor
Harry Rabinowitz	Conductor
Gabriel Yared	Composer

Technical Credits

Anthony Minghella

Anthony Minghella	Screenwriter
Saul Zaentz	Producer
Harvey Weinstein	Executive Producer,Executive Producer
Scott Greenstein	Executive Producer
Richard Conway	Special Effects
Jim Dowdall	Stunts
Michelle Guish	Casting
Dennis Lowe	Special Effects
David Rubin	Casting
Richard Bain	Special Effects
James Austin	Sound Effects
Michael Axinn	Sound Effects
Don Banks	Sound Effects
David Franklin Bergad	Sound Effects
Mark Berger	Sound Effects
David Parker	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

The English Patient is admired for the lush, romantic texture of its story and for its visual richness. It is a complex and rewarding film, meticulously produced and featuring superb performances from an ensemble cast, particularly Juliette Binoche, whose upset Oscar win as Best Supporting Actress (over sentimental favorite Lauren Bacall) is one aspect of the film that has never been significantly under question. It is also fair to say that few films have had so quick a downward re-evaluation. The winner of nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, the film was released to a smartly designed marketing campaign of snob appeal that overwhelmed the Oscar voting season. There arose an immediate and continuing consensus that nine Oscars may have been too many for this romantic war epic and that Fargo was the greater and more lasting work of 1996. Producer Saul Zaentz was the primary creative force behind the film, obtaining the financing and bringing together an unusually talented team of top-notch actors and tech personnel. The film was marketed as a triumph of "independent" filmmaking, even though it was essentially financed and distributed by its corporate parent, studio giant Disney.