The movie "The English Patient" tells the story of a badly burned researcher named Laszlo de Almasy. But he is not English. What is his nationality?

Early on with "The English Patient" (1996), it is revealed that Laszlo de Almasy is not English. He is a Hungarian count, who is named Laszlo de Almasy (Ralph Fiennes). He has been working as a cartographer. He was in Egypt before the war and was attached to the Royal Geographic Society as a pilot. He flew over the desert, making maps that could be used in needed research. Also his type of job was a good cover story which could be used by English troops in case of war.

With this movie, its “present” action takes place in Italy, during the last days of World War II. The horribly burned man, the “English patient” of the title, is part of a hospital convoy. When he grows too ill to be moved, a nurse named Hana (Juliette Binoche) offers to stay behind to care for him in the ruins of an old monastery. Here she sets up a makeshift hospital. She is soon joined by two bomb-disposal experts and a mysterious visitor named Caravaggio (Willem Dafoe).

Initially, the film opens with a pre-war biplane flying above the desert. Two individual passengers are in its open cockpits. These passengers are keenly discussed. Questions about why they are in the plane and what happens to them are fully reviewed. All of the rest of the film is prologue and epilogue to the reasons for the flight. Overall, this film presents a story about loyalty, personal betrayal, healing and unexpected personal passion and attachments.