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  2. France. East Germany. Language. French. Box office. $12.7 million [1] The Crucible ( French: Les Sorcières de Salem, German: Die Hexen von Salem or Hexenjagd) is a 1957 French-language historical drama film directed by Raymond Rouleau with a screenplay adapted by Jean-Paul Sartre from the 1953 play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller .

  3. The Crucible. Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. Perched on the edge of a continent is a community dedicated to the service of God. A gang of teenage girls, stifled by the crushing piety of their elders, dance naked in the woods. One girl, Abigail Williams -- her innocence lost in the bed of John Proctor, a married farmer -- drinks a charm to kill his ...

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  4. The 1692 Salem witch trials are brought vividly to life in this compelling adaptation of Arthur Miller's play, directed by Nicholas Hytner, which stars Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder. When a group of teenage girls is accused of witchcraft, they accuse various townspeople as having bewitched them. As hysteria mounts, blameless victims are torn from their homes, leading to a devastating climax.

    • 123 min
    • 13
  5. Drama. History. Black and White. Based on Book. 1690s. Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John’s wife of being a witch in revenge. It will be the beginning of a series of witchcraft trials and a dark moment in American history.

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    • Simone Signoret
    • Raymond Rouleau
    • DEFA-Studio Für Spielfilme
  6. Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a witch in revenge. It will be the beginning of a series of witchcraft trials and a dark moment in American history.

    • Raymond Rouleau
    • April 26, 1957
  7. An all-star cast brings Arthur Miller’s play about the Salem witch trials, written as an allegory for the 1950s McCarthy hearings, to the screen.

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  9. Jun 1, 2004 · I have used this film to supplement my teaching of Arthur Miller's stage play in my college English courses. Miller wrote both the 1953 stage script and the 1996 screenplay; and the intervening decades between these two versions clearly gave him some insights into the timelessness of the story that transcends both the 1692 witch trials and the Post-World-War-II McCarthyism that prompted Miller ...