Il paziente inglese

Titolo originale: The English Patient
Regia: Anthony Minghella |
Anno: 1996
Origine: United Kingdom | United States of America |
Generi: Dramma Romance Guerra
Tag: egypt | secret love | amnesia | airplane | cairo | identity | intelligence | traitor | burn | world war ii | landmine | expedition | cave | sandstorm | cave painting | prisoner of war | map | mine clearer | hearing | desert scientist | desert |
Cast: Ralph Fiennes | Juliette Binoche | Willem Dafoe | Kristin Scott Thomas | Naveen Andrews | Colin Firth | Julian Wadham | Torri Higginson | Jürgen Prochnow | Kevin Whately | Clive Merrison | Nino Castelnuovo | Hichem Rostom | Peter Rühring | Geordie Johnson | Liisa Repo-Martell | Raymond Coulthard | Philip Whitchurch | Jason Done | Roger Morlidge | Simon Sherlock | Sebastian Schipper | Fritz Eggert | Sonia Mankaï | Rim Turkhi | Sebastian Rudolph | Thoraya Sehill | Sondos Belhassen | Gregor Truter | Salah Miled | Abdellatif Hamrouni | Samy Azaiez | Habib Chetoui | Philippa Day | Amanda Walker | Paul Kant | Matthew Ferguson | Anthony Smee | Lee Ross | Dominic Mafham |

Toscana, fine Seconda Guerra Mondiale. In un casolare l’infermiera canadese Hana, innamorata di un soldato indiano, si occupa di un misterioso paziente inglese del quale si ripercorre, grazie alla presenza dell’enigmatico Caravaggio, la grande e tragica passione per l’affascinante Katherine.

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The two biplanes used by the cartographers were original 1930s aircraft designs, the yellow one an A [...] D
This is the first Disney-released film to win the Oscar for Best Picture, since Mirimax was a divisi [...] D
This movie has two Christ actors. Willem Dafoe played Jesus in L'ultima tentazione di Cristo (1988), [...] D
Anthony Minghella wrote twenty drafts of the screenplay. D
Ralph Fiennes' burned head make-up had not only to be medically accurate, but had also to subtly ref [...] D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2005 list of 250 movies nominated for AFI's 100 Years o [...] D
Dame Kristin Scott Thomas was cast after writing a letter to writer and director Anthony Minghella, [...] D
From first draft of the screenplay to final cut took four years. D
This movie marks as one of two times a character played by Colin Firth loses the leading lady for a [...] D
The character name, "Kip", apparently was author Michael Ondaatje's nickname at school. This was a r [...] D
In 2005, Juliette Binoche had her Oscar touched up by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science [...] D
While there is the suggestion that the mysterious English patient has been shot down and fallen from [...] D
Writer and director Anthony Minghella's first cut of this movie was four hours and ten minutes long. D
First of three movies about World War II in which Dame Kristin Scott Thomas appeared. The others bei [...] D
Ralph Fiennes' burn make-up took five hours to apply every day. Fiennes insisted that the full body [...] D
Bruce Willis was offered the role of David Caravaggio and wanted the role, but was talked out of tak [...] D
Juliette Binoche knew she wanted to be in this movie the minute she read the scene where Kip Singh s [...] D
Producer Saul Zaentz provided $6 million of the budget in return for a guarantee he would get final [...] D
This movie was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the "Best of Film 1996" at position number one in t [...] D
Editor Walter Murch made over forty time transitions in this movie. D
The hollow at the base of the throat is called the Suprasternal Notch. D
The cast includes two Oscar winners: Juliette Binoche and Colin Firth; and three Oscar nominees: Ral [...] D
The Germans who shoot at Almásy's plane at the beginning were actually tourists roped into the pr [...] D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2002 list of the top 100 America's Greatest Love Storie [...] D
Count Laszlo de Almásy's talk about cutting his heart out every night to find it full by morning [...] D
Included amongst the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider. D
When Twentieth Century Fox was involved in this movie, they tried to talk the producers out of casti [...] D
Colin Firth (Geoffrey Clifton) appeared in Pride and Prejudice (1995) and Naveen Andrews (Kip Singh) [...] D
Colin Firth has worked with Ralph Fiennes' brother Joseph Fiennes, and Kristin Scott Thomas' sister [...] D
Daniel Day-Lewis turned down the role of Count Laszlo de Almásy. D
Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche appeared in Cime tempestose (1992). D
This is the only movie from 1996 nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress Oscars. D
Demi Moore and Sharon Stone lobbied hard for the role of Katharine Clifton. But they ended up losing [...] D
This movie features Dame Kristin Scott Thomas' only Oscar nominated performance, as of February 2020 [...] D
There was a great effort made to have the source novel by Canadian author Michael Ondaatje filmed as [...] D
Anthony Minghella read the novel in one sitting after completing a previous shoot in New York City. [...] D
Ralph Fiennes and Dame Kristin Scott Thomas became good friends and appeared together in two more mo [...] D
Originally, Twentieth Century Fox was to finance this movie, but disputes arose between the studio a [...] D
Early into production, writer and director Anthony Minghella fell over and broke his ankle. Therefor [...] D
This was the first digitally-edited movie to win an Academy Award for Best Film Editing (Walter Murc [...] D
Almost every reverse angle shot following a desert vista was done on a soundstage due to budgetary c [...] D
Naveen Andrews and Kevin Whately had to learn to ride motorcycles for this movie. There was some con [...] D
According to Clive Merrison in an interview with Toby Hadoke, he worked on this movie for a month, b [...] D
The only Best Picture Oscar nominee in 1996 nominated for Best Sound, Best Costume Design, and Best [...] D
Willem Defoe and Ralph Fiennes appeared in The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). D
When Kip (Naveen Andrews) is packing his things before he leaves he also packs up the belongings of [...] D
Nicole Kidman revealed in 2011 that she met with Anthony Minghella to discuss a possible role in thi [...] D
The only Best Picture Oscar nominee of the year to be also nominated for Adapted Screenplay. D
Dame Kristin Scott Thomas actively lobbied writer and director Anthony Minghella for the part of Kat [...] D
Dame Kristin Scott Thomas and Ralph Fiennes appeared in Chromophobia (2005) and The Invisible Woman [...] D
Hana is very distressed when Kip is called on to disarm a bomb since she fears she will never see hi [...] D
At a charity auction in New York in 2001, a shirt worn by Ralph Fiennes in this movie fetched over $ [...] D
Saul Zaentz had been a particular fan of Anthony Minghella's first movie Il fantasma innamorato (199 [...] D
In one scene, Count Laszlo de Almásy mentions to Katharine Clifton that he grew up in Budapest, H [...] D
Included amongst the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the four hundred movies nominated for th [...] D
In the scene where Hana is being pulled up to see the paintings in the church, the electric power an [...] D
Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas both later appeared in films about British political leaders du [...] D
Sir Sean Connery was actively considering playing the part of David Caravaggio before he backed out [...] D
The motorcycle that Kip Singh (Naveen Andrews) rode throughout this movie, sometimes with Hana (Juli [...] D