Le Corbeau

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Le Corbeau is a 1943 French language film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. The film was notable for causing serious trouble to its director after World War II because it had been produced by Continental Films, a German production company established in France in the early months of the war and because the film had been perceived, by the underground and the communist press, as vilifying the French people. Because of this, Clouzot was initially banned for life from directing in France and the film too was banned, but in 1947, both bans were lifted. The film was remade as The 13th Letter (1951) by Otto Preminger. The term "corbeau" has always been the French for raven or crow, but has now entered the French language as meaning a sender of anonymous letters as well. One of the most infamous cases of this kind centred around the murder of four-year-old Grégoire Villemin. A sender of anonymous letters claimed responsibility and at one stage the boy''s own mother was accused of sending the letters.... Mehr