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Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Country
USA
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Year
1996
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Genres
Romance War
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Introduction
“Vast landscapes mingle with the minute details of desire, and the combination is transfixing.”
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 1996
Michael Ondaatje’s Booker Prize-winning novel The English Patient was widely considered unfilmable because of its complex narrative structure. This interweaves the friendship of a charred, bedridden Hungarian cartographer (Ralph Fiennes) and his nurse (Juliette Binoche) with scenes of his earlier affair with a colleague’s wife (Kristin Scott Thomas).
Nothing in Anthony Minghella’s hitherto modest career as a writer-director suggested he was the man for the job. All the more remarkable, then, that this is such an elegant and passionate picture, genuinely sweeping but also attentively observed.
The film was rewarded with nine Oscars, including for Gabriel Yared’s stirring score, John Seale’s cinematography and the dexterous editing of Walter Murch, which confidently pilots the film back and forth through time.
Ondaatje and Murch went on to collaborate on a fascinating book on editing, The Conversations (2002). Minghella directed only three further cinema features before his death in 2008.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Count László Almásy
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Hana
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Caravaggio
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Katharine Clifton
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Kip
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Geoffrey Clifton
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Madox
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Major Müller, German officer
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Sergeant Hardy
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Fenelon-Barnes
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D'Agostino
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Fouad
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Bermann
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Oliver
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Mary
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Jan
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Rupert Douglas
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Corporal Dade
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Spalding
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beach interrogating officer
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young Canadian soldier
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kiss me soldier
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sergeant, desert train
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private, desert train
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interrogation room soldier
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interrogation room soldier
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Arab nurse
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Aicha
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officer in square
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interpreter in square
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woman with baby in square
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officer, El Taj
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corporal, El Taj
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Bedouin doctor
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ancient Arab
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Kamal
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Al Auf
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officer's wife
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Lady Hampton
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Sir Ronnie Hampton
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Credits
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Direction:
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Director
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2nd Unit Director
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Assistant Director (1st)
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Assistant Director (2nd)
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Assistant Director
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Assistant Director
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Assistant Director (Tunisian Crew)
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Assistant Director (Tunisian Crew)
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Assistant Director (Tunisian Crew)
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Assistant Director (2nd Unit 1st)
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Assistant Director (2nd Unit 2nd)
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Script Supervisor
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Script Supervisor (2nd Unit 2nd)
Production:
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Production Company
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Production Company
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Executive Producer
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Executive Producer
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Executive Producer
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Producer
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Line Producer
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Associate Producer
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Associate Producer
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Unit Production Manager
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Unit Production Manager
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Unit Manager (Tunisian Crew)
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Production Co-ordinator
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Production Co-ordinator (Rome/Viareggio)
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Production Co-ordinator (Rome)
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Production Co-ordinator (Tunisian Crew)
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Production Co-ordinator (2nd Unit)
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Location Manager
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Location Manager
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Location Manager
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Location Manager (Tunisian Crew)
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Location Manager (Tunisian Crew)
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Location Manager (Tunisian Crew)
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Location Manager (Tunisian Crew)
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Post-production Supervisor
Casting:
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Casting
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Casting
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Casting (Canadian)
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Casting (German)
Writing:
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Screenplay
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Based on the novel by
Photography:
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Director of Photography
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Director of Photography (2nd Unit)
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Camera Operator (1st)
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Camera Operator (2nd)
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Steadicam Operator
Special Effects:
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Visual Effects
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DFL (Supervisor)
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DFL (Facilities Producer)
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DFL (Digital Line Producer)
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DFL (Designer)
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DFL (Designer)
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DFL (Designer)
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DFL (Designer)
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DFL (Designer)
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DFL (Computer Generated Designer)
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DFL (Computer Generated Designer)
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DFL (Computer Generated Designer)
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Special Effects (Supervisor)
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Special Effects (Senior Technician)
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Special Effects (Senior Technician)
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Special Effects (Senior Technician Ital)
Editing:
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Editor
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Editor (Associate)
Design:
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Production Designer
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Art Director/Set Decorator
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Art Director (Desert Cars)
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Set Decorator
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Fresco Painter
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Draftsman
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Scenic Artist
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Scenic Artist
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Storyboard Artist
Costumes:
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Costume Designer
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Co-costume Designer
Make-up:
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Make-up
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Ms. Binoche & Ms. Scott Thomas Make-up
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Make-up Artist
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Make-up Artist
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Make-up Artist
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Hair/Make-up (2nd Unit)
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Prosthetics
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JHCS (Visual Supervisor)
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JHCS (Creative Project Supervisor)
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JHCS (Production Supervisor)
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JHCS (English Patient prosthetic mkup)
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JHCS (Sculptor)
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JHCS (Sculptor)
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JHCS (Artwork)
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JHCS (Animatronics Design)
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JHCS (Animatronics Design)
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JHCS (Animatronics Design)
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JHCS (Fabrication)
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JHCS (Fabrication)
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JHCS (Fabrication)
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JHCS (Fabrication)
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JHCS (Hair Design)
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JHCS (Mold Design Supervisor)
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JHCS (Moldmaker)
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JHCS (Moldmaker)
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JHCS (Moldmaker)
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JHCS (Moldmaker)
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Chief Hairstylist
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Hairdresser
Titles:
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Title Design
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Main Title Animation
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End Titles
Music:
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Music
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Music Recorded by
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Piano Soloist
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Music Performed by
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Conductor
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SHJO Conductor/Arranger
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Music Editor
Sound:
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Music Pre-mixer
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Music Sound Designer
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[Music] Recording Engineer
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SHJO Sound Engineer
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Sound Recording
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Sound Recording
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Sound Mixer (2nd Unit)
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Re-recording Mixer
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Re-recording Mixer
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Re-recording Mixer
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Supervising Sound Editor
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Dialogue Editor
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Dialogue Editor
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Dialogue Editor
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Sound Effects Editor
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Sound Effects Editor
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Sound Effects Editor
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ADR (Supervisor)
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ADR (Editor)
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Foley (Editor)
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Foley (Mixer)
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Foley (Artist)
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Foley (Artist)
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Foley (Artist)
Choreography:
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Choreography
Stunts:
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Stunt Supervisor
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Stunt Co-ordinator
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Stuntman
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Stuntman
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Stuntman
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Stuntman
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Stuntman
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Airplane Co-ordinator
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Pilot (Madox's Tiger Moth)
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Pilot (Clifton's Stearman)
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Pilot (Helicopter)
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Pilot (Helicopter)
Consultant:
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Demolitions Consultant
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Armourer (Tuscany)
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Armourer (Sahara Desert)
Publicity:
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Unit Publicist
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Sight & Sound magazine
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Reviews, interviews and features from the international film magazine.
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