Daphnis and Chloe

At the end of the film, Nikos Kondouros refers to Daphnis and Chloe as a source of inspiration for his movie. The story by Longus (second century BC) is very different from Mikres Aphrodites. There are a young girl and a young boy, but both are shepherds, both are foundlings, there are a lot of adventures with pirates and wars and abductions, and in the end both turn out to be children of rich parents, so they marry and live happily ever after. The full text (a facsimile from 1916 with english translation)can be found on http://www.archive.org/stream/daphnischloewith00longuoft#page/n3/mode/2up.
It seems to me Kondouros may have started from this idea of an innocent pastoral idyl, he even kept the name Chloe, but he infused it with Jungian symbology. I assume, but this is speculation on my part, that he borrowed heavily from Karoly Kerenyi, a close collaborator of Jung on archetypes in greek mythology.