Le corbeau [videorecording] /

Le corbeau [videorecording] / English title: Raven 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. - France: studio Canal, 2007. - 1 videodisc (ca. 87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1943. 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.

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

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

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.


DVD, Region 1.


French dialogue (mono)


Letter writing--Drama.
Anonymous letters--Drama.
Suspicion--France--Drama.
World War, 1939-1945--Occupied territories--Drama.
Feature films--France.
Motion pictures--France.
Feature films.

CM DVD 01033