The Naked Heart

Maria Chapdelaine
Directed by	Marc Allégret
Produced by	Nelson Scott Louis de Masure (uncredited)
Written by	Marc Allégret C.K. Jaeger J. McLaren-Ross Hugh Mills Roger Vadim
Starring	Michèle Morgan Kieron Moore Françoise Rosay
Music by	Guy Bernard
Cinematography	Armand Thirard
Editing by	Mireille Bessette Maurice Rootes
Studio	Everest Pictures Ltd. Régina
Distributed by	Filmsonor (France) Associated Artists Productions (USA)
Release date(s)	17 November 1950 (France) 8 March 1955 (USA)
Running time	100 min
Country	UK / France
Language	French

The Naked Heart (French title: Maria Chapdelaine) is a 1950 French language motion picture melodrama directed by Marc Allégret, based on the novel Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hémon. The film stars Michèle Morgan, Kieron Moore and Françoise Rosay.

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

• Maria Chapdelaine at the British Film Institute
• Maria Chapdelaine at the Internet Movie Database
• Maria Chapdelaine at AllRovi