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Le Corbeau ( lit. 'The Raven') is a 1943 French film noir directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and starring Pierre Fresnay, Micheline Francey and Pierre Larquey. The film is about a French town where a number of citizens receive anonymous letters containing libelous information, particularly targeting a doctor accused of providing abortion services.
The Raven: Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. With Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Héléna Manson. A French village doctor becomes the target of poison-pen letters sent to village leaders, accusing him of affairs and practicing abortion.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Henri-Georges Clouzot
- 1943-09-28
May 8, 2021 · A mysterious writer of poison-pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau (the Raven), plagues a French provincial town, unwittingly exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community’s calm surface.
- 91 min
A mysterious writer of poison-pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau (the Raven), plagues a French provincial town, unwittingly exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community’s calm surface.
Sep 13, 2022 · LE CORBEAU, a buried World War II treasure from France’s master of suspense Henri-Georges Clouzot, returns to the Criterion Collection on Blu-ray.
In Le Corbeau, he went much further, taking the standard ingredients of the Continental-Films detective movies and using them to make something darker and more complex—to make, in fact, the first classic French film noir.