The Crucible
7.2
57
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- Original title
- Les sorcières de Salem
- Year
- 1957
- Running time
- 145 min.
- Country
- France
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Simone Signoret
- Yves Montand
- Mylène Demongeot
- Alfred Adam
- Jean Debucourt
- Coutan-Lambert
- Aribert Grimmer
- Pascale Petit
- Michel Piccoli
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production France-Germany - East Germany (GDR);
- Genre
- Drama | Historical. 17th Century. Witchcraft
- Movie Groups
- Arthur Miller Adaptations
- 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.
- Awards
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1957: BAFTA Awards: Best Foreign Actress (Signoret). Nominated for Most Promising Newcomer to Film1957: Karlovy Vary Internacional Film Festival: Best Actor (Montand) & Actress (Demongeot and Signoret)
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