The Naked Heart (1950)

Original title

Maria Chapdelaine

Directed by

Marc Allégret

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom, France

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman living in a remote Canadian village in the early 1900s must decide between three suitors. Her choice will shape the rest of her life in this isolated community.

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What happens

The Naked Heart (French title: Maria Chapdelaine) is a 1950 British-French historical drama film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Michèle Morgan, Kieron Moore and Françoise Rosay. It was written by Allégret, C.K. Jaeger, J. McLaren-Ross, Hugh Mills and Roger Vadim based on the novel Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hémon. The film was released in separate English and French versions. A previous film version was made in 1934. It tells the story of a convent girl in a remote Northern Canadian village at the beginning of the 20th century. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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