Le corbeau
(DVD)
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Published
[Irvington, NY?] : Criterion Collection ; Image Entertainment, 2004.
Edition
Full screen format (aspect ratio 1.33:1).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 91 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 pages).
Status
Atascadero Library - Adult DVD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
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Fiction
1 available
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Atascadero Library - Adult DVD - Adult Audiovisual | Fiction | On Shelf |
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Published
[Irvington, NY?] : Criterion Collection ; Image Entertainment, 2004.
Format
DVD
Edition
Full screen format (aspect ratio 1.33:1).
Language
fre
UPC
037429186022
Notes
General Note
Originally released as a motion picture in 1943.
General Note
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.
Creation/Production Credits
Director of photography, Nicholas Hayer ; editor, Marguerite Beauge? ; original music, Tony Aubin ; set decorator, Andre? Andrejew.
Participants/Performers
Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, He?le?na Manson, Jeanne Frusier-Gir, Sylvie, Liliane Maigne?, Pierre Larquey, Noe?l Roquevert.
Description
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.
Target Audience
Not rated by MPAA.
System Details
DVD, Region 1.
Language
French dialogue (mono) with optional English subtitles.
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