The English Patient

The sweeping expanses of the Sahara are the setting for a passionate love affair in this adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel. A badly burned man, Laszlo de Almasy, is tended to by a nurse, Hana, in an Italian monastery near the end of World War II. His past is revealed through flashbacks involving a married Englishwoman and his work mapping the African landscape. Hana learns to heal her own scars as she helps the dying man.

Cast :

• Ralph Fiennes
• Count Laszlo de Almásy

• Juliette Binoche
• Hana

• Willem Dafoe
• David Caravaggio

• Kristin Scott Thomas
• Katharine Clifton

• Naveen Andrews
• Lt. Kip Singh

• Colin Firth
• Geoffrey Clifton

• Julian Wadham
• Madox

• Jürgen Prochnow
• Major Muller

• Kevin Whately
• Sgt. Hardy

• Clive Merrison
• Fenelon-Barnes

• Nino Castelnuovo
• D'Agostino

• Hichem Rostom
• Fouad

• Peter Ruhring
• Bermann