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  1. Black Narcissus is a 1947 British psychological drama film jointly written, directed and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on the 1939 novel by Rumer Godden. It stars Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar, and Flora Robson, and features Esmond Knight, Jean Simmons, and Kathleen Byron.

  2. Nov 18, 2020 · That movie was made by an English director and a Hungarian-born writer-producer: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the celebrated cinema partnership revered for a series of...

  3. May 25, 2017 · Black Narcissus at 75: exoticism and eroticism in Powell and Pressburger’s masterpiece. Why does Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Black Narcissus still cast such a strange spell 75 years later?

  4. Dec 27, 2020 · In 1947, it inspired a film version, written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Godden herself loathed it, overwhelmed by what she dismissed as its phoniness: “The...

  5. Black Narcissus (1947 film) written, produced, and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and starring Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Esmond Knight and Jean Simmons.

  6. Dec 26, 2020 · Adapted from Rumer Goddens 1939 book of the same name, Black Narcissus is an entirely fictional story. However, Godden did draw upon some of her own experiences when she wrote it.

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  8. Mar 10, 2009 · Released in the year India gained independence from Britain, Black Narcissus was adapted from Rumer Goddens 1939 novel of the same name. The film marks Powell and Pressburger’s first significant foray into adaptation.

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