Le corbeau [videorecording] / Criterion Collection ; Janus Films ; Studio Canal ; Tobis presente un film de Continental Films ; scénario de Louis Chavance ; adaptation et dialogues de Henri Georges Clouzot et Louis Chavance ; réalisation, Henri Georges Clouzot.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1943. Full screen format (aspect ratio 1.33:1). Special features: new digital transfer, with restored image and sound ; video interview with Bertrand Tavernier ; excerpts from "The story of French cinema by those who made it: grand illusion, 1939-1942," a 1975 documentary featuring Henri-Georges Clouzot ; new essay by film scholar Alan Williams. Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Héléna Manson, Jeanne Frusier-Gir, Sylvie, Liliane Maigné, Pierre Larquey, Noël Roquevert.
Summary:
A mysterious writer of poison pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau, plagues a French provincial town, unwittingly exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community's calm surface. Brilliantly captures the spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing turning an ccupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem style witch-hunt.
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