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Le corbeau [videorecording (DVD)].

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Criterion Collection, c2004.

Criterion collection 227

Video Difference legacy collection.

Alternate title:

Raven [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1943.

Special features: New digital transfer, with restored image and sound ; video interview with Bertrand Tavernier ; excerpts from "The story of French cinema by those who made it: grand illusion, 1939-1942," a 1975 documentary featuring Henri-Georges Clouzot ; theatrical trailer ; new and improved English subtitle translation ; optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition ; plus, a 16-page booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Alan Williams, author of Republic of images: a history of French filmmaking, and two articles from a 1947 French newspaper that reveal the scandal and controversy behind "The Corbeau affair".

1.33:1 aspect ratio.

At head of title: Henri-Georges Clouzot's.

In French with optional English subtitles.

Screenplay by Louis Chavance ; adaptation and dialogue by Henri Georges Clouzot et Louis Chavance ; director, Henri Georges Clouzot.

Pierre Fresnay with Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Héléna Manson, Jeanne Frusier-Gir, Sylvie, Liliane Maigné, Pierre Larquey and Noël Roquevert.

"A mysterious writer of poison pen letters known only as Le Corbeau (The Raven) plagues a French provincial town, unwittingly exposing 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, the Catholic Church, and was banned after the 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 Clouzot's directorial reputation after the war. Le Corbeau brilliantly captures the spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing turning an occupied French town into a twentieth century Salem."--Container.

Psychological thriller films.

Films français.

Films de détective.

Thrillers psychologiques.

Clouzot, H.-G. (Henri-Georges)

Fresnay, Pierre, 1897-1975.

Leclerc, Ginette, 1912-1992.

Francey, Micheline, 1919-1969.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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