Pastoral Symphony (film)
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Pastoral Symphony (French: La Symphonie pastorale) is a 1946 French
The film is based on the novella
It was the film chosen to be shown at the opening gala of the
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' love and disappointed by the pastor's affections for her, she realises that her former happiness has been lost forever.
Cast
- Michèle Morgan as Gertrude
- Pierre Blanchar as Le pasteur Jean Martens
- Line Noro as Amélie Martens - sa femme
- Jean Desailly as Jacques Martens - son fils
- Andrée Clément as Piette Castéran
- Jacques Louvigny as Castéran
- Rosine Luguet as Charlotte Martens
- Mona Dol as Soeur Claire
- Robert Demorget as Pierre Martens
- Hélène Dassonville as Mademoiselle de la Grange
- Germaine Michel as La vieille paysanne
- Florence Brière as Une amie de Gertrude
- Albert Glado as Paul Martens
References
- ^ Crisp p.122
Bibliography
- Crisp, Colin. French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 2, 1940–1958. Indiana University Press, 2015.
- Leahy, Sarah & Vanderschelden, Isabelle. Screenwriters in French cinema. Manchester University Press, 2021.
External links
- Pastoral Symphony at IMDb
- La Symphonie Pastorale at AllMovie
- La Symphonie Pastorale at filmsdefrance.com
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