Directed by:
Henri-Georges ClouzotCinematography:
Nicolas HayerComposer:
Tony AubinCast:
Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Héléna Manson, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Pierre Larquey, Noël Roquevert, Pierre Bertin, Louis Seigner, Sylvie (more)VOD (1)
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A mysterious writer of poison-pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau (the Raven), plagues a provincial French town, exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community’s calm surface. Made during the Nazi occupation of France, this film by Henri-Georges Clouzot was attacked by the right-wing Vichy regime, the left-wing Resistance press, and the Catholic Church, and was banned after the country’s 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 his directorial reputation after the war. Le Corbeau brilliantly captures the spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing that turns an occupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem. (Criterion)
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Pierre Fresnay
France
Best movies:
Monsieur Vincent (1947)
Le Corbeau (1943)
Grand Illusion (1937)
Ginette Leclerc
France
Best movies:
Le Corbeau (1943)
Big Deal (1973)
The Counterfeiters of Paris (1961)
Micheline Francey
France
Best movies:
Le Corbeau (1943)
Héléna Manson
Venezuela
Best movies:
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
A Trap for Cinderella (1965)
Les Misérables (1982)
Jeanne Fusier-Gir
France
Best movies:
Marie-October (1959)
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
Le Corbeau (1943)
Pierre Larquey
France
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1934) (series)
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
The President (1961)
Noël Roquevert
France
Best movies:
No Vacation for Mr. Mayor (1951)
Marie-October (1959)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)
Pierre Bertin
France
Best movies:
Dialogue with the Carmelites (1960)
Don't Look Now: We're Being Shot At (1966)
Le Corbeau (1943)
Louis Seigner
France
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1982)
This Special Friendship (1964)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)
Sylvie
France
Best movies:
The Little World of Don Camillo (1952)
L'Idiot (1946)
Le Corbeau (1943)
Lucienne Bogaert
France
Best movies:
Inspector Maigret (1958)
Le Corbeau (1943)
Deadlier Than the Male (1956)
Bernard Lancret
France
Best movies:
Le Corbeau (1943)
That Naughty Girl (1956)
Mayerling (1936)
Nicole Chollet
France
Best movies:
Le Corbeau (1943)
The Discord (1978)
Bay of Angels (1963)
Paul Barge
France
Best movies:
The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)
Le Corbeau (1943)
Golden Marie (1952)
Antoine Balpêtré
France
Best movies:
The President (1961)
Le Corbeau (1943)
The Red and the Black (1954)
Liliane Maigné
France
Best movies:
Le Corbeau (1943)
Nous sommes tous des assassins (1952)
Palmyre Levasseur
France
Best movies:
Agence matrimoniale (1952)
No Vacation for Mr. Mayor (1951)
Les Misérables (1958)
Jean Brochard
France
Best movies:
Way of Youth (1959)
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet (1955)
The Spies (1957)
Roger Blin
France
Best movies:
The Knight of the Night (1954)
Le Corbeau (1943)
Orpheus (1950)
Pierre Palau
France
Best movies:
Agence matrimoniale (1952)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Le Corbeau (1943)