eric krauter
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The blue and grey
Jason Bourne said:Hey the Boys in Company C wasn't all that bad
Time said:well let's see English Patient hands down.
GuyontheRight said:Ive never heard of it, what's it about?
Tagline: In love, there are no boundaries.
Plot Outline: At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.
The moving story of an English mapmaker and his dying memories of the romance that tragically alters his life. Burned horribly in a fiery crash after being shot down while crossing the Sahara Desert during WWII, he is tended to by a Canadian nurse with ghosts of her own and haunted by a thief seeking answers for a crime from his past.
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.