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The English Patient
Drama, Romance, War
In the 1930s, Count Almásy 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, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who savor lush historical romance, elliptical storytelling, and emotionally devastating conflicts between desire, loyalty, and memory.
- Tone
- melancholic, romantic, bittersweet
- Payoff
- heartbreak, reflection
- Pacing
- meditative
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- non-linear
- Themes
- forbidden love, memory, betrayal, identity, war
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century wartime, North African desert and secluded Italian villa
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