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)
(more)Cast
![Pierre Fresnay](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/505/505222_72d592.jpg)
Pierre Fresnay
France
Best movies:
Monsieur Vincent (1947)
Le Corbeau (1943)
Grand Illusion (1937)
![Ginette Leclerc](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/724/163724935_521038.jpg)
Ginette Leclerc
France
Best movies:
Le Corbeau (1943)
Big Deal (1973)
The Counterfeiters of Paris (1961)
![Micheline Francey](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/046/576/46576516_d3560b.jpg)
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](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/440/440684_c4327c.jpg)
Jeanne Fusier-Gir
France
Best movies:
Marie-October (1959)
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
Le Corbeau (1943)
![Pierre Larquey](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/505/505290_30aaca.jpg)
Pierre Larquey
France
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1934) (series)
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
Diabolique (1955)
![Noël Roquevert](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/412/412607_c073f5.jpg)
Noël Roquevert
France
Best movies:
No Vacation for Mr. Mayor (1951)
Marie-October (1959)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)
![Pierre Bertin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/494/494649_06d310.jpg)
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](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/448/448885_d0dd7a.jpg)
Louis Seigner
France
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1982)
This Special Friendship (1964)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)
![Sylvie](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/434/434765_26fb0b.jpg)
Sylvie
France
Best movies:
The Little World of Don Camillo (1952)
L'Idiot (1946)
Le Corbeau (1943)
![Lucienne Bogaert](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/465/465188_518567.jpg)
Lucienne Bogaert
France
Best movies:
Inspector Maigret (1958)
Le Corbeau (1943)
Deadlier Than the Male (1956)
![Bernard Lancret](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/483/483289_51e10d.jpg)
Bernard Lancret
France
Best movies:
Le Corbeau (1943)
That Naughty Girl (1956)
Mayerling (1936)
![Nicole Chollet](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/025/059/25059628_523f82.jpg)
Nicole Chollet
France
Best movies:
Le Corbeau (1943)
The Discord (1978)
Bay of Angels (1963)
![Paul Barge](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/033/880/33880004_dcecfd.jpg)
Paul Barge
France
Best movies:
The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)
Le Corbeau (1943)
Golden Marie (1952)
![Antoine Balpêtré](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/042/871/42871900_fa9495.jpg)
Antoine Balpêtré
France
Best movies:
Le Corbeau (1943)
The President (1961)
The Red and the Black (1954)
![Liliane Maigné](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/055/126/55126080_2147ac.jpg)
Liliane Maigné
France
Best movies:
Le Corbeau (1943)
Nous sommes tous des assassins (1952)
![Palmyre Levasseur](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/066/037/66037488_2b1f38.jpg)
Palmyre Levasseur
France
Best movies:
Agence matrimoniale (1952)
No Vacation for Mr. Mayor (1951)
Les Misérables (1958)
![Jean Brochard](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/083/855/83855279_bff95d.jpg)
Jean Brochard
France
Best movies:
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet (1955)
Way of Youth (1959)
Diabolique (1955)
![Roger Blin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/406/158406989_820396.jpg)
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)