Le corbeau [videorecording] / Criterion Collection ; Janus Films ; Studio Canal ; Tobis presente un film de Continental Films ; scâenario de Louis Chavance ; adaptation et dialogues de Henri Georges Clouzot et Louis Chavance ; râealisation, Henri Georges Clouzot.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublication details: France: studio Canal, 2007.Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 bookletOther title:
  • English title: Raven
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • CM DVD 01033
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Nicholas Hayer ; editor, Marguerite Beaugâe ; original music, Tony Aubin ; set decorator, Andrâe Andrejew.
Cast: Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Hâelâena Manson, Jeanne Frusier-Gir, Sylvie, Liliane Maignâe, Pierre Larquey, Noèel Roquevert.Summary: A mysterious writer of poison pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau, plagues a French provincial town, unwittingly exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community's calm surface. Brilliantly captures the spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing turning an ccupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem style witch-hunt.
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DVD DVD Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Colección Multimedia (Humanidades 4to. Piso) CM DVD 01033 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000040834

DVD, Region 1.

French dialogue (mono)

Originally released as a motion picture in 1943.

Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Hâelâena Manson, Jeanne Frusier-Gir, Sylvie, Liliane Maignâe, Pierre Larquey, Noèel Roquevert.

Director of photography, Nicholas Hayer ; editor, Marguerite Beaugâe ; original music, Tony Aubin ; set decorator, Andrâe Andrejew.

Full screen format (aspect ratio 1.33:1).

Special features: new digital transfer, with restored image and sound ; video interview with Bertrand Tavernier ; excerpts from "The story of French cnema by those who made it: grand illusion, 1939-1942," a 1975 documentary featuring Henri-Georges Clouzot ; new essay by film scholar Alan Williams.

A mysterious writer of poison pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau, plagues a French provincial town, unwittingly exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community's calm surface. Brilliantly captures the spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing turning an ccupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem style witch-hunt.

Not rated by MPAA.

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