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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Albert Malbert
France
Best movies:
Le Corbeau (1943)
Daybreak (1939)
Farewell Mister Grock (1950)
Pâquerette
France
Best movies:
Le Corbeau (1943)
Golden Marie (1952)
The Crucible (1957)
Marcel Delaître
France
Best movies:
The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)
Wooden Crosses (1932)
Le Corbeau (1943)
Eugène Yvernès
Best movies:
Le Corbeau (1943)
Crime and Punishment (1956)
Man About Town (1947)
Albert Brouett
France
Best movies:
Le Corbeau (1943)
Grand Illusion (1937)
Gustave Gallet
France
Best movies:
Le Corbeau (1943)
Without Leaving an Address (1951)
The Murderer Lives at #21 (1942)