Wooden Crosses
Hailed by the New York Times on its Paris release as "one of the great films in motion picture history," Raymond Bernard's Wooden Crosses, France's answer to All Quiet on the Western Front, still stuns with its depiction of the travails of one French regiment during World War I. Using a masterful arsenal of film techniques, from haunting matte paintings to jarring documentary-like camerawork in the film's battle sequences, Bernard created a pacifist work of enormous empathy and chilling despair. No one who has ever seen this technical and emotional powerhouse has been able to forget it.
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Collector's Set
Cast
- Pierre Blanchar
- Gilbert Demachy
- Gabriel Gabrio
- Sulphart
- Charles Vanel
- Caporal Bréval
- Raymond Aimos
- Fouillard
- Antonin Artaud
- Vieublé
- Paul Azais
- Broucke
- René Bergeron
- Hamel
- Raymond Cordy
- Vairon
Credits
- Director
- Raymond Bernard
- Screenplay
- André Lang
- Based on the novel by
- Roland Dorgelès
- Cinematography
- Jules Kruger
- Cinematography
- René Ribault
- Art direction
- Jean Perrier
- Editing
- Lucien Grumberg
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