In The English Patient (1996), the title character’s nationality is Hungarian.
The film follows a badly burned man known as the English patient, who is cared for in an Italian monastery near the end of World War II. His memories gradually reveal a complicated wartime love affair and his identity as László Almásy, a Hungarian desert explorer.
Ralph Fiennes played Almásy, while Juliette Binoche portrayed Hana, the nurse caring for him. The movie was written and directed by Anthony Minghella and adapted from Michael Ondaatje’s 1992 novel.
The title is deliberately misleading within the story: the patient is assumed to be English because of his accent and circumstances, but his actual identity is Hungarian. The historical explorer László Almásy was a real person, though the film’s romantic narrative is fictionalized and should not be treated as a biography.