TITLE...........: Le Corbeau (1943)
STARS...........: Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey
DIRECTOR........: Henri-Georges Clouzot
WRITERS.........: Louis Chavance, Henri-Georges Clouzot
GENRE...........: Crime, Drama, Mystery
IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035753
RUNTIME.........: 1h 31mn
SIZE............: 5.64 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 8500 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1480x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.37:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1..........: French FLAC 1.0
AUDIO2..........: Commentary  by Adrian Martin [R4 DVD]
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray, Madman R4 AUS DVD
ENCODE DATE.....: 2023-02-07


A mysterious writer of poison-pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau (the Raven), plagues a French provincial town, exposing the collective 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, and the Catholic Church, and was banned after the liberation. But some—including Jean Cocteau and Jean-Paul Sartre—recognized the powerful subtext of Clouzot’s anti-informant, anti-Gestapo fable, and worked to rehabilitate his directorial reputation after the war. Le Corbeau brilliantly captures the paranoid pettiness and self-loathing that turn an occupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem.


Extras

• Interview with filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier

• Excerpts from The Story of French Cinema by Those Who Made It (1975)