The English Patient VHS (1996) Academy Award Winner Romantic War Drama PAL

The English Patient is a critically acclaimed romantic war drama and winner of multiple Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Directed by Anthony Minghella, the film is set against the backdrop of World War II and stars Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Willem Dafoe.

Condition:
Pre-owned, good condition. Not ex-rental. Tape and case show light signs of normal home use only. Please see photos for exact condition.

This is an original Australian VHS release in PAL format, ideal for collectors of award-winning cinema or 1990s film classics.


For USA and Canadian customers

The tape is shipped form Australia, and is in PAL format.

The normal VHS standard in Canada and the United States is NTSC not PAL.

Should be playable, provided your VCR and television can play PAL formatted tapes.

Please be sure as a technical matter, that your VCR/TV are able to play PAL tapes.

Thanks in advance.


From IMDB some fun trivia and goofs :


  • In the biplane's crash, the wrecked and folded wings undergo a major reconstruction just before the final shot of it coming to rest.

  • The hair Katharine twirls and pins to her head at the campfire shifts position between shots, as does her shawl.

  • The Germans who shoot at Almásy's plane at the beginning were actually tourists roped into the production because they couldn't afford any more extras.

  • The motorcycle that Kip Singh (Naveen Andrews) rode throughout this movie, sometimes with Hana (Juliette Binoche), was a Triumph 350cc 3HW. Triumph was the make of the motorcycle specified in the original novel.



Review from IMDB :


 10/10
One of the greatest achievements in all of cinema, peerlessly beautiful
inkblot7 March 2007
Count Laszlo (Ralph Fiennes) has just been transferred to a hospital in Italy during World War II. He is horrifically burned from an ambush. His nurse Hana (Juliette Binoche) tends to him, body and mind, for she fears, quite rightly, that he may be a very troubled soul. In the course of his care, the Count starts to tell Hana of his recent past. It seems he worked in a government capacity in Africa, where he met a beautiful married lady named Katherine (Kristin Scott Thomas). 
Although they tried to avoid each other, they fell in love. After a brief affair, Katherine called it quits, leaving the Count desolate. Even so, the two would meet again, under heart-wrenching circumstances. Meanwhile, Hana herself falls for a Sihk man in the British bomb squad. Yet, the war is raging relentlessly. Can love exist when the world is in turmoil? This is a tremendous film, based on an equally fine but complex novel. The plot has many story lines that are woven together beautifully, each of them poignant beyond description. The script itself is elegant and contains many memorable lines. 
Fiennes is magnificent, both as the burn victim and as the man who thought love was a myth. Scott Thomas is also quite fine as the woman who fights against her passions. As for Binoche, she richly deserved the Oscar that she was presented, as her nurse is a shining example of hope in a hopeless situation. The scenery is utterly gorgeous, as are the costumes, the direction, and the production. If you have missed out on viewing this film, rectify that soon, very soon. The English Patient will remain one of the greatest achievements in film for centuries to come.