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Lilies of the Field

Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...

7.2(235)19631h 34m3

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
Part of Lilies of the Field Collection · 2 films
  • based on novel or book
  • nun
  • arizona
  • homelessness
  • farm life
  • chapel
  • religion
  • racism
  • desert
  • mother superior
  • theme song
  • ruins

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Ralph Nelson

Writers

James Poe

Produced in

United States of America

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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

Frequently asked questions

Lilies of the Field was released on 4 June 1963.

Audience reviews

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    CinemaSerf

    5/24/2023

    7/10

    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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