2 real historical locations · Italy, Libya
Anthony Minghella's Oscar-winning epic follows a badly burned Hungarian cartographer through the final months of the war in Italy, as his tragic wartime love affair in North Africa is slowly revealed. Based on Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel.
CinemaMapped has mapped 2 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Italy, Libya.
László Almásy explores and maps the Libyan Desert before the war — and carries a dying Katherine Clifton to the Cave of Swimmers.
László Almásy was a real Hungarian explorer who mapped the Libyan Desert in the 1930s. His maps were used by the German Abwehr in Operation Salam (1942) to infiltrate agents across Allied lines to Cairo. He was tried ...
View location →1944-45 — the English patient and his nurse Hana shelter in an abandoned Tuscan monastery as the war slowly ends around them.
The Italian campaign was the longest and most grinding Allied operation in Western Europe. The Gothic Line across Tuscany was not fully broken until April 1945. Over 300,000 Allied soldiers became casualties in Italy....
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