The Naked Heart

Maria Chapdelaine
Directed by	Marc Allégret
Written by	Marc Allégret C.K. Jaeger J. McLaren-Ross Hugh Mills Roger Vadim
Produced by	Nelson Scott Louis de Masure (uncredited)
Starring	Michèle Morgan Kieron Moore Françoise Rosay
Cinematography	Armand Thirard
Edited by	Mireille Bessette Maurice Rootes
Music by	Guy Bernard
Production companies	Everest Pictures Ltd. Régina
Distributed by	Filmsonor (France) British Lion Films (UK)
Release date	17 November 1950 (1950-11-17) (France)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United Kingdom / France
Language	English/French
Box office	£99,247 (UK)

The Naked Heart (French title: Maria Chapdelaine) is a 1950 British-French historical drama film directed by Marc Allégret, based on the novel Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hémon. The film stars Michèle Morgan, Kieron Moore and Françoise Rosay. It was released in separate English and French versions. A previous film version had been made in 1934.

It tells the story of a convent girl in a remote Northern Canadian village at the beginning of the 20th century.

Cast

• Michèle Morgan as Maria Chapdelaine
• Kieron Moore as Lorenzo Surprenant
• Françoise Rosay as Laura Chapdelaine
• Jack Watling as Robert Gagnon
• Philippe Lemaire as François Paradis
• Nancy Price as Theresa Suprenant
• Francis de Wolff as Papa Suprenant
• George Woodbridge as Samuel Chapdelaine
• Brian Roper as Tit-Be Chapdelaine

External links

• The Naked Heart at the British Film Institute
• The Naked Heart at IMDb