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The English Patient influenced The English Patient
Added by Media Influence Map · 30 September 2026
The evidence
Anthony Minghella's film adapts Michael Ondaatje's novel about a burned man nursed in an Italian villa at the end of the war, and his affair in the North African desert before it, giving the love story more weight than the book does.
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