Deliberate mistake: The actual Lazlo Almasy died in the 1950's after voluntarily serving with the German Army and SS during WWII.
The English Patient (1996)
1 deliberate mistake - chronological order
Directed by: Anthony Minghella
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliette Binoche, Naveen Andrews
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Willem Dafoe is conversing with another male British agent as the German paratroopers invade, a British female worker passes him as he is about to go down the flight of stairs. As he reaches the ground floor, she passes by him again as she goes up the same stairs he just came down - seemingly far too quick to be possible.
Almásy: I once traveled with a guide who was taking me to Faya. He didn't speak for nine hours. At the end of it he pointed at the horizon and said, "Faya!" That was a good day.
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