This is the place where The English Patient starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche and Willem Dafoe was filmed at Grand Hotel des Bains (closed) in Venezia, Italy. Start scrolling to find out more.
Almásy and Katharina dance at the Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo.
The Grand Hotel des Bains is a former luxury hotel on the Lido of Venice in northern Italy. Built in 1900 to attract wealthy tourists, it is remembered amongst other things for Thomas Mann's stay there in 1911, which inspired his novella Death in Venice. Luchino Visconti's film of the novella was shot there in 1971. The hotel was used by movie stars during the annual Venice Film Festival. In the 1996 the location was used to portray Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo. In 2010, the hotel was closed for a planned conversion into a luxury condominium apartment complex, the Residenze des Bains.
hotel
Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.
If you want to create you own SCEEN, please login. SCEEN IT is a great guide that lets you add and share travel info about places like Venezia, Italy in The English Patient starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche and Willem Dafoe. It shows you where it was filmed, which filming locations were used and how to get there.
COMMENTS on this sceen
Share photos, information and your experience