"The English Patient"(1996)

Starring (Character): Ralph Fiennes (Count Laszio Almasy), Juliette Binoche (Hana), Kristin Scott Thomas, Willem Dafoe, Naveen Andrews.
Director: Anthony Minghella.
Producer: Saul Zaentz.
ScreeenWriter: Anthony Minghella      

   Beginning in the 1930's, "The English Patient" tells the story of Count Almasy who is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almasy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics that is later revealed in a series of flashbacks while Almasy is on his death bed after being horribly burned in a plane crash.

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