Black Narcissus

Name: Black Narcissus
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Released: 1947
Duration: 1 h 40 min
Cast: Kathleen Byron, Deborah Kerr, Jenny Laird, Flora Robson, Sabu

by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger1h401947United Kingdom

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After opening a convent in the Himalayas, five nuns encounter conflict and tension - both with the natives and also within their own group - as they attempt to adapt to their remote, exotic surroundings.

Cast and crew

Credits
- Distributor : Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)
- Production Compagny : The Archers , Independent Producers
- Producer : Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
- Scenario : Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
- Costume Design : Hein Heckroth
- Editing : Reginald Mills
- Set Decoration : Alfred Junge
- Original Music : Brian Easdale
- Original Work Author : Margaret Rumer Godden
- Photo Director : Jack Cardiff
- Director : Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
- Sound Recorder : Stanley Lambourne
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Sound mix : Stéréo 2.0
- Year of production : 1947
- French release date : 12 juillet 1949
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Colors
- Language : English

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Credits

Technical details

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The Tales of Hoffmann

The Red shoes

A Matter of Life and Death

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Germany Year Zero

The Big Day

Jenny Lamour

With the same cast

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Deborah Kerr

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

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Tea and Sympathy

Jenny Laird

Village of the Damned

Flora Robson

Seven Women

David Farrar

Gone to Earth

Jean Simmons

Spartacus

Elmer Gantry

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