LE CORBEAU - BLU-CRITERION COLLECTION

Details

• Release Year: 1943
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: A mysterious writer of poison-pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau (the Raven), plagues a French provincial town, exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community's calm surface. Made during the Nazi occupation of France, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Le Corbeau was attacked by the right-wing Vichy regime, the left-wing Resistance press, and the Catholic Church, and was banned after the liberation. But some—including Jean Cocteau and Jean-Paul Sartre—recognized the powerful subtext of Clouzot's anti-informant, anti-Gestapo fable, and worked to rehabilitate his directorial reputation after the war. Le Corbeau brilliantly captures the paranoid pettiness and self-loathing that turn an occupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem.
• Cast: Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Héléna Manson, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Sylvie, Liliane Maigné, Pierre Larquey, Noël Roquevert, Bernard Lancret, Antoine Balpêtré, Jean Brochard, Pierre Bertin, Louis Seigner, Roger Blin, Robert Clermont, Palau, Marcel Delaître, Paul Barge, Lucienne Bogaert, Albert Brouett, Marie-Jacqueline Chantal, Nicole Chollet, Etienne Decroux, Gustave Gallet, Palmyre Levasseur, Albert Malbert, Pâquerette, Eugène Yvernès, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Louis Chavance
• Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
• Runtime: 1:31
• Company: Films Sonores Tobis, Continental Films, StudioCanal S.A., Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie