Promise at Dawn vs The English Patient

Promise at Dawn and The English Patient are tied on audience score (7.3/10). Promise at Dawn is the shorter watch at 2h 10m compared with 2h 42m. The English Patient is the older of the two (1996 against 2017). Both are drama, romance, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Promise at Dawn posterPromise at Dawn2017 VS The English Patient posterThe English Patient1996
Promise at DawnThe English Patient
Audience score★ 7.3/10★ 7.2/10
Year20171996
Length2h 10m2h 42m
GenresDrama, History, Romance, WarDrama, Romance, War
Country––
DirectorEric BarbierAnthony Minghella
Main castCatherine McCormack, Pierre Niney, Bastien Bouillon, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Arieh WorthalterNaveen Andrews, Willem Dafoe, Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Jürgen Prochnow

Synopsis

Promise at Dawn

From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi-comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times.

The English Patient

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.

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