The Crucible (1957 film)

Infobox Film
name = The Crucible


image_size = 180px
caption = Video cover for 1991 release
director = Raymond Rouleau
producer = Raymond Borderie
writer = Arthur Miller (play)
Jean-Paul Sartre (screenplay)
starring = Simone Signoret
Yves Montand
Mylène Demongeot
Jean Debucourt
Pierre Larquey
music = Georges Auric
Hanns Eisler
cinematography = Claude Renoir
editing = Marguerite Renoir
distributor = Pathé Consortium Cinéma
Kingsley-International Pictures
released = France 26 April 1957
nowrap|East Germany 4 October 1957
Japan 14 October 1958
USA 8 December 1958
Sweden 31 March 1959
Finland 27 January 1961
runtime = 145 min
country = FRA
DDR
language = French
budget =
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imdb_id = 50997

"The Crucible" (French: "Les Sorcières de Salem") is a 1957 joint Franco-East German film production directed by Raymond Rouleau with a screenplay adapted by Jean-Paul Sartre from the 1953 play, "The Crucible", by Arthur Miller. Miller's play is an allegory of McCarthyism inspired by Miller's blacklisting over allegations he was pro-Communist.

The film was directed by Raymond Rouleaustars, with stars, Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Mylène Demongeot, Jean Debucourt.

Senator McCarthy died one year following the release. An English language film adaptation was not released until 1996.

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