United Kingdom
1947
101 minutes
Color
1.33:1
English
93
Plagued by uncertainties and worldly desires, five Protestant missionary nuns, led by Deborah Kerr’s Sister Clodagh, struggle to establish a school in the desolate Himalayas. All the elements of cinematic arts are perfectly fused in Powell and Pressburger’s fascinating study of the age-old conflict between the spirit and the flesh, set against the grandeur of the snowcapped peaks of Kanchenjunga.
| Sister Clodagh | Deborah Kerr |
| The Young General | Sabu |
| Mr. Dean | David Farrar |
| Sister Philippa | Flora Robson |
| The Old General | Esmond Knight |
| Kanchi | Jean Simmons |
| Sister Ruth | Kathleen Byron |
| Sister Honey | Jenny Laird |
| Sister Briony | Judith Furse |
| Angu Ayah | May Hallatt |
| Joseph Anthony | Eddie Whaley, Jr. |
| Con | Shaun Noble |
| Mother Dorothea | Nancy Roberts |
| Director | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
| Written, produced, and directed by | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
| Adapted from the novel by | Rumer Godden |
| Photographed in Technicolor by | Jack Cardiff |
| Music and sound score composed and conducted by | Brian Easdale |
| Editing | Reginald Mills |
| Costumes | Hein Heckroth |
| Production Design | Alfred Junge |
When Black Narcissus opened in England in 1947, Great Britain was barely emerging from the agony and exhaustion of World War II. Nothing could be further from gray, hungry postwar London than the India imagined by director Michael Powell and screenwriter Emeric Pressburger: here...
Black Narcissus was the sixth production from that remarkable pair of artists Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, collectively known as The Archers, who dominated the creative side of the British film industry from 1943 through 1956. Based on Rumer Godden’s 1939 novel,
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