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Black narcissus [videorecording] / J. Arthur Rank presents ; a production of the Archers ; Independent Producers Limited ; written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: BLA210 | Criterion CollectionSeries: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 93.Publication details: [Irvington, NY?] : Criterion Collection, c2000.Description: 1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0780023560
  • 9780780023567
Uniform titles:
  • Black narcissus (Motion picture)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4372
LOC classification:
  • CM DVD 00078
Production credits:
  • Photographer, Jack Cardiff ; editor, Reginald Mills ; music, Brian Easdale ; production designer, Alfred Junge.
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Esmond Knight, Jean Simmons, Kathleen Byron.Summary: Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh (Kerr) is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples and customs, a harsh and unforgiving climate and a wrenching struggle with her own past that will prove the ultimate test of her devotion and faith.
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DVD DVD Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch CM DVD 00078 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000039689

DVD.

Closed-captioned.

Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Esmond Knight, Jean Simmons, Kathleen Byron.

Photographer, Jack Cardiff ; editor, Reginald Mills ; music, Brian Easdale ; production designer, Alfred Junge.

Adapted from the novel by Rumer Godden.

Originally produced as motion picture in 1947.

Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh (Kerr) is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples and customs, a harsh and unforgiving climate and a wrenching struggle with her own past that will prove the ultimate test of her devotion and faith.

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