The Crucible
A Feature film of
Production year1957
French release26/04/1957
Runtime2 h 25 min
Synopsis
Salem, 1692. Industrious farmer, John Proctor, has twice made love to 17-year-old Abigail, a youth he and his wife have taken in. (His wife Elisabeth has rebuffed him for seven months; she is puritanical and cold.) When she finds John and Abigail embracing, she sends the lass from her home and John, feeling damned, agrees. Abigail vows revenge. Her chance comes when she accuses Elisabeth of witchcraft and manipulates younger girls to support her claims of seeing spirits. The town's minister and politicians want a cause: ridding the town of witchcraft is the ideal repression. John too, is accused; Abigail offers him a way to avoid hanging. Elisabeth has her own confession.
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Director (1)
Actors (27)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique (CICC), Pathé Production
- Foreign production company : DEFA - Studio Babelsberg
- Film exports/foreign sales : Pathé Films
- French distribution : Pathé Consortium Cinéma
Full credits (17)
- Executive Producers : Bernard Borderie, Pierre Cabaud
- Adaptation : Jean-Paul Sartre
- Screenwriter : Jean-Paul Sartre
- Director of Photography : Claude Renoir
- Music Composer : Georges Auric
- Editor : Marguerite Houllé-Renoir
- Sound Recordist : Antoine Petitjean
- Costume designer : Lila De Nobili
- Author of original work : Arthur Miller
- Line Producer : René Bezard
- Sound assistants : Arthur Van Der Meeren, Gérard Brisseau
- Assistant Operator : Maurice Kaminsky
- Camera Operator : Louis Stein
- Production Manager : Charles Borderie
- Continuity supervisor : Ginette Courtois
- Production Designer : René Moulaert
- Still Photographer : Roger Corbeau
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, Literary adaptation
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Germany
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
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