The extraordinary palette of colors in the boldly stylized and sensual Black Narcissus is even more stunning in this original 35mm Technicolor print. Black Narcissus won a number of well-deserved Academy Awards, including one for Best Color Photography. Based on Rumer Godden's novel, it is set in the Himalayas, where five nuns struggle to maintain a hospital and school. The film is a psychologically acute, powerful study of the conflict between Christianity and the forces of nature. As the nuns struggle with the rigors of climate, they must also do battle with the forces of mysticism, madness and sexual frustration.