TY  - ADVS
AU  - Andrews,Naveen
AU  - Binoche,Juliette
AU  - Castelnuovo,Nino
AU  - Dafoe,Willem
AU  - Fiennes,Ralph
AU  - Firth,Colin
AU  - Merrison,Clive
AU  - Minghella,Anthony
AU  - Ondaatje,Michael
AU  - Prochnow,Jürgen
AU  - Scott-Thomas,Kristin
AU  - Seale,John
AU  - Wadham,Julian
AU  - Whately,Kevin
AU  - Yared,Gabriel
AU  - Zaentz,Saul
ED  - Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)
ED  - Miramax Films.
ED  - Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm)
TI  - The English patient
T2  - Miramax collector's series
SN  - 0788853392
PY  - 2004///?]
CY  - Burbank, CA
PB  - Miramax Home Entertainment, Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
KW  - Geographers
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Drama
KW  - Love
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Nurses
KW  - Ordnance disposal units
KW  - Spies
KW  - Thieves
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Italy
KW  - Florence (Italy)
KW  - History
KW  - Jilf al Kabir Plateau (Egypt)
KW  - Feature films
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Film adaptations
KW  - Historical films
KW  - Video recordings for the hearing impaired
KW  - War films
N1  - Based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje; Disc one: Special features: feature commentary with director Anthony Minghella; feature commentary with director and screenwriter Anthony Minghella, producer Saul Zaentz, and English Patient author Michael Ondaatje; Disc two: Bonus material: About Michael Ondaatje (22 min.); From novel to screenplay: interviews with cast and crew (8 min.); The formidable Saul Zaentz (2 min.); A historical look at the real Count Almasy (9 min.); Filmmaker conversations (79 min.); The work of Stuart Craig: production designer (4 min.); The eyes of Phil Bray: still photographer (3 min.); Master class with Anthony Minghella: deleted scenes (20 min.); Black and white to colour: the making of The English Patient (53 min.); Reviews of The English Patient [text feature]; sneak peeks [previews] (9 min.); Originally produced as a motion picture in 1996; Opening credits -- Last requests -- Questions and answers -- Minefield -- Hana stays behind -- Story of Candaules -- New houseguest -- Dangerous Bach -- Writings on the wall -- Newfound feelings -- Katherine remains -- Sandstorm -- Reading lessons -- Unexpected visitor -- Illicit liaisons -- Plan of surprise -- Gift for Kip -- Clearing out -- Torture room -- Drunken spectacle -- Volume of light -- Defusing the bomb -- It's raining -- Disastrous celebration -- Caravaggio's departure -- Death flight -- In need of help -- Train trip -- Reflections -- Fatal injection -- End credits; Director of photography, John Seale ; film editor, Walter Murch ; original music composed by Gabriel Yared ; costume designer, Ann Roth ; production designer, Stuart Craig; Ralph Fiennes (Almásy), Juliette Binoche (Hana), Willem Dafoe (Caravaggio), Kristin Scott Thomas (Katharine Clifton), Naveen Andrews (Kip), Colin Firth (Geoffrey Clifton), Julian Wadham (Madox), Jürgen Prochnow (Major Muller), Kevin Whately (Hardy), Clive Merrison (Fenelon-Barnes), Nino Castelnuovo (D'Agostino), Hichem Rostom (Fouad), Peter Rühring (Bermann); MPAA rating: rated R, for sexuality, some violence and language
N2  - 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
ER  -