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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. Captures the spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing turning an ccupied French t...

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Corporate Authors: Criterion Collection (Firm), Janus Films, Studio Canal+, Tobis Filmkunst GmbH, Continental Films (Firm)
Other Authors: Clouzot, H.-G. (Henri-Georges), Fresnay, Pierre, 1897-1975, Leclerc, Ginette, 1912-1992, Francey, Micheline
Format: Video DVD
Language:French
Language Notes:In French, with optional new and improved English subtitles.
Published: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2004]
Edition:RSDL dual-layer ed.
Series:Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 227.
Subjects:
Detective and mystery films.
Letter writing > Drama.
Anonymous letters > Drama.
Suspicion > France > Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 > Occupied territories > Drama.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, French.
Feature films.
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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. Captures the spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing turning an ccupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem.
Item Description:Originally released as a motion picture in 1943.
Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
New digital transfer, with restored image and sound.
Accompanying booklet features a new essay by film scholar Alan Williams, author of Republic of image : a history of French filmmaking, and two articles from a 1947 French newspaper that reveal the scandal and controversy behind "the Corbeau affair."
Special features: Video interview with Bertrand Tavernier (Coup de torchon) -- Excerpts from The story of French cinema by those who made it : grand illusions 1939-1942, a 1975 documentary featuring Henri-Georges Clouzot -- Theatrical trailer.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.).
Format:DVD; Dolby digital, mono.
Audience:Not rated.
Production Credits:Director of photography, Nicholas Hayer ; editor, Marguerite Beaugé ; original music, Tony Aubin ; set decorator, André Andrejew.
ISBN:0780027868