Blu-ray
Le Corbeau = The raven
Call Number
- BLU-RAY FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Languages
In French, with English subtitles.
Performers
Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Héléna Manson, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Sylvie, Liliane Maigné, Pierre Larquey, Noël Roquevert, Bernard Lancret, Antoine Balpétré, Jean Brochard, Pierre Bertin, Louis Seigner, Roger Blin, Robert Clermont, Palau, Marcel Delaitre.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2022]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (91 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (illustrations ; 17 cm)
Audience
Not rated.
Uniform Title
Summary
"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"--Container.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1943.
Special features: 4K restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack ; interview with filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier ; excerpts from The story of French cinema by those who made it: grand illusions 1939-1942, a 1975 documentary featuring director Henri-Georges Clouzot ; trailer.