La Symphonie Pastorale (1946)

Name: La Symphonie Pastorale
Genre: drama film
Released: 1946-09-26
Duration: 1 h 50 min

Original title: La Symphonie pastorale
Directed by: Jean Delannoy
Genre: drama film
Country: France
Runtime: 1h 50m
Rating: 6.2 of 10 from 22 voters
Elsewhere: IMDb

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A Protestant pastor takes in a blind, orphaned girl and raises her in his household. He falls in love with her, creating tension with his family and his faith.

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What happens

Pastoral Symphony (French: La Symphonie pastorale) is a 1946 French drama film directed by Jean Delannoy and starring Michèle Morgan, Pierre Blanchar and Jean Desailly. The film is based on the novella La Symphonie pastorale by André Gide and adapted to the screen by Jean Aurenche.It was shot at the Neuilly Studios in Paris with sets designed by the art director René Renoux. Location shooting took place around Rossinière in Switzerland. The film's score was by Georges Auric. At the 1946 Cannes Film Festival, it won the Grand Prix (equivalent of the Palme d'Or) and the Best Actress award for Michèle Morgan. It was the film chosen to be shown at the opening gala of the Cameo cinema in Edinburgh, Scotland, in March 1949, and a rare surviving print with English subtitles was shown there again in 2009 to celebrate the film's 60th anniversary, courtesy of the BFI. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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