The Naked Heart

Maria Chapdelaine
Directed byMarc Allégret
Written by
Produced by
  • Nelson Scott
  • Louis de Masure (uncredited)
Starring
CinematographyArmand Thirard
Edited by
Music byGuy Bernard
Production
companies
  • Everest Pictures Ltd.
  • Régina
Distributed by
Release date
  • 17 November 1950 (1950-11-17) (France)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom / France
LanguageEnglish/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 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.