La symphonie pastorale
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| Directed by | Jean Delannoy |
| Written by | André Gide (novel) |
| Starring | Pierre Blanchar Michèle Morgan |
| Distributed by | Pathé Consortium Cinéma |
| Release date(s) | September 1946 (Cannes Film Festival) |
| Running time | 110 min |
| Language | French |
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La symphonie pastorale is a 1946 French language motion picture drama directed by Jean Delannoy and starring Michèle Morgan and Pierre Blanchar.
The film is based on the novella La Symphonie Pastorale by André Gide and adapted to the screen by Jean Aurenche. The film score was by Georges Auric. At the Cannes Film Festival, it won the Grand Prix (equivalent of the Golden Palm) and the Best Actress award for Michèle Morgan.
[edit] Plot Summary
The pastor of a mountain village adopts a small blind girl, Gertrude. As Gertrude grows up into an attractive young woman, the pastor, now middle-aged, realises that he is in love with her. To his chagrin, his adopted son, Jacques, is also in love with Gertrude, even though he is shortly to be married to another woman.
Jacques’s fiancée is jealous of Gertrude and arranges for her to see a doctor in the hope that she might be cured and to enable Jacques to choose equally between the two women.
Miraculously, Gertrude’s sight is restored and she returns to the village a changed woman. Unable to accept Jacques’s love and disappointed by the pastor’s affections for her, she realises that her former happiness has been lost forever.
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