Lilies of the Field
Ralph Nelson / US, 1963 / 94 min.
Sidney Poitier was the first Black man to win a Best Actor Oscar as a helpful former GI who meets five nuns who have escaped from behind the Berlin Wall to a farm in Arizona. This heart-warming comedy drama on the magic of the everyday sparkles in its simplicity.
An unemployed construction worker stops at a remote farm in the Arizona desert to get water for his overheated car. The dilapidated farm is run by a group of Catholic nuns from East Germany, led by a strict Mother Superior who believes that this Homer has been sent by God to found a church in the desert.
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Director
Ralph Nelson
Production year
1963
Country
US
Original title
Lilies of the Field
Length
94 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
ENG or NONE
Format
DCP
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