Cover image for Le Corbeau The raven
Title:
Le Corbeau The raven
Author:
Chavance, Louis.
Edition:
[DVD version].
Publication Information:
[United States] : Criterion Collection : Distributed by Image Entertainment, [2004]

©1943
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
General Note:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1943.

Special features: new digital transfer, with restored image and sound; video interview with Bertrand Tavernier, director of "Coup de Torchon"; excerpts from "The story of French Cinema by those who made it: Grand illusion, 1939-1942", a 1975 documentary featuring Henri-Georges Clouzot; new essay by film scholar Alan Williams, author of "Republic of images: a history of French fimmaking".

For specific features see interactive menu.
Language:
French
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: Not rated.
ISBN:
9780780027862
UPC:
037429186022
Format :
DVD