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The Raven - Le corbeau (1943)
Synopsis
A mysterious writer of poison-pen letters, known only as Le corbeau (the Raven), plagues a French provincial town, unwittingly 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 Vichy regime, the Resistance press, the Catholic Church, and was banned after the Liberation.
But some—including Jean Cocteau and Jean-Paul Sartre—recognized the powerful subtext to Clouzot’s anti-informant, anti-Gestapo fable, and worked to rehabilitate Clouzot’s directorial reputation after the war.
Le Corbeau brilliantly captures a spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing turning an occupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem. -- The Criterion Collection
Cast: Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Pierre Larquey, Héléna Manson, Liliane Maigné, Noël Roquevert, Sylvie
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About this movie
Title: The Raven - Le corbeau (1943)
Directed by: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Date of birth: 20 November 1907, Niort, France
Date of death: 12 January 1977, Paris, France
Writing credits: Louis Chavance, Henri-Georges Clouzot
Music: Tony Aubin
Year: 1943
Country: France
Language: French
Color: Black & white
Runtime: 91 min.
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