DAK RELATED MOVIES - THE ENGLISH PATIENT (1996)

Haunting and enthralling, The English Patient is a scrapbook of another world, of romance and adventure and tragedy, jumbled out of sequence.Years after the plane crash, its pilot, Count Almasy (Ralph Fiennes) he survived the crash but was horribly burned and is now dying reminisces bitterly about his stolen, illicit affair with Katherine Clifton (Kristin Scott Thomas), the woman in the plane. Almasy at first seems repelled by Katherine, the wife of a fellow cartographer Geoffrey Clifton (Colin Firth) all are part of an international group mapping North Africa just before World War II but in fact he's so strongly attracted to her that it frightens him. He is the kind of man who bottles up emotions until they explode, and when he and Katherine do finally come together, it is with a kind of rage.
In contrast to Almasy and Katherine's tempestuous relationship is the tender, tentative romance between Almasy's nurse, Hana (Juliette Binoche), and bomb expert Kip (Naveen Andrews) in the film's present, near the end of the war. Hana believes she is cursed, that those she loves will invariably be killed they frequently are and her reluctance to get close to anyone in a world where friends and lovers are taken suddenly and capriciously will resonate in Almasy's story.

 

THE CAVE OF THE SWIMMERS

 

Uwaynat in southwestern Egypt is the location of the ‘Cave of the Swimmers’, the famous cave paintings discovered by Laszlo Almasy in the middle of the western desert. The images, which are found in a region completely devoid of water, curiously depict characters swimming. This cave featured prominently in the film The English Patient.

COUNT LASZLO EDE ALMASY

THE REAL ENGLISH PATIENT