Lilies of the Field
1963 · 1h 34m · Comedy, Drama · United States of America · Rated 6 (DE)
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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african american manamenarizonabased on novel or bookboldbondingchapelcircuit priestconstruction workerdesertdesert storedignifiedeast german refugeesfarm lifefrugalityhomelessnesshumanitarian workmother superiornunracismreligionreligious communityruinstheme song
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