Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 162 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
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.
- egypt
- secret love
- amnesia
- airplane
- cairo
- identity
- intelligence
- traitor
- burn
- world war ii
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Ralph Fiennes
Almásy
Juliette Binoche
Hana
Willem Dafoe
David Caravaggio
Kristin Scott Thomas
Katharine Clifton
- Naveen Andrews — Sikh Kip
- Colin Firth — Geoffrey Clifton
- Julian Wadham — Madox
- Torri Higginson — Mary
- Jürgen Prochnow — Major Muller
- Kevin Whately — Sgt. Hardy
- Clive Merrison — Fenelon-Barnes
- Nino Castelnuovo — D'Agostino
- Hichem Rostom — Fouad
- Peter Rühring — Bermann
- Geordie Johnson — Oliver
- Directed
- Anthony Minghella
- Written
- Anthony Minghella
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 2,435 ratings
- Studio
- Miramax, The Saul Zaentz Company, Tiger Moth Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
