The English Patient

Other mistake: When Juliette Binoche departs from the ambulance convoy to take the burned Fiennes into the Italian monastery, she asks her commanding officer to give her a lot of morphine and a pistol. Binoche is never seen with a pistol after that. It would be absolutely necessary for a lone Army nurse to have a side-arm in a war zone.

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Suggested correction: Nurses and doctors are NEVER armed in combat zones. If they are, they can be legitimately fired upon as combatants. This is a part of the Geneva Convention rules of warfare.

The Geneva Convention regarding this came into being in 1949, after the war. This film is set in WW2. The Geneva conventions also don't ban medical personnel from being armed at all - some do carry sidearms, but they have to be used only for self defence.

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Mistakes

Continuity mistake: After Almasy comes out from the desert, he goes to the British soldiers. They offer him a half glass of water. As they hand him the water, there is a scene change, but the water now is a full glass.

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Quotes

Almásy: How can you ever smile, as if your life hadn't capsized?

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Trivia

Trivia: This is not made entirely clear in the movie but in the book it is nearly seven years before the Count returns to the cave for Katherine's body.

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