Les Sorcières de Salem (1957)

Drama History

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.

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witch denunziation mccarthy-Ära anti-communism witch hunt

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Runtime: 145 mins Rating: 7.6

Cast

Yves Montand

Blaze

Michel Piccoli

Ispettore Marchand

Simone Signoret

Nicole Horner

Pierre Larquey

M.Drain, professeur

Mylène Demongeot

Milady de Winter

Sabine Thalbach

Kitty

Hans Klering

Kuhn

Alfred Adam

Alfred