Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger - 1947
cast: Deborah Kerr, Kathleen Byron, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons, David Farrar, Sabu, Esmond Knight
camera: Jack Cardiff
screenplay: Powell, Pressburger
source: novel by Rumer Godden
country of origin: Great Britain
Five British nuns assigned to an isolated outpost in the mountains of North India are housed in what was once harem quarters, where the lingering perfume of a bygone era conflicts with their sense of mission. Dark drama.