

Lilies of the Field
Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...
An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior, who believes the man has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $247K
- Box office
- $7M
- Language
- German
- based on novel or book
- nun
- arizona
- homelessness
- farm life
- chapel
- religion
- racism
- desert
- mother superior
- theme song
- ruins
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR1 Oct 1963
AustriaAT
- Theatrical121 Oct 1963
BrazilBR
- Theatricale Livre1 Jan 1964
GermanyDE
- Theatrical64 Jun 1963
ItalyIT
- Theatrical31 Aug 1963
JapanJP
- TheatricalG24 Oct 1964
NetherlandsNL
- PhysicalALDVD1 Jan 2005
PortugalPT
- Theatricale Livre10 Dec 1964
SwedenSE
- Theatrical (limited)154 Jun 1963
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Lilies of the Field was released on 4 June 1963.
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1- C7/10
CinemaSerf
5/24/2023
This is one of my favourite performances from Sidney Poitier. Normally his characterisations were settled in an environment of racist and/or bigoted undertones. This drama actually has a much lighter, more comedic, touch to it. He is "Homer" a travelling factotum who happens upon five German nuns who who are bent on building a chapel - but they have no money, no labourer, and practically no way of communicating with …
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