Wooden Crosses
1932 film
- 17 March 1932 (1932-03-17)
Running time
English
Wooden Crosses (French: Les Croix de Bois) is a 1932 French war film by Raymond Bernard, based upon a novel by Roland Dorgelès.[1]
Plot
Patriotic student Demachy enlists in the French army in 1914 at the start of World War I. He and his comrades soon experience the terrifying, endless trench war in Champagne, where more and more wooden crosses have to be erected for this cannon fodder.
Cast (in credits order)
- Pierre Blanchar as Adjudant Gilbert Demachy
- Gabriel Gabrio as Sulphart
- Charles Vanel as Caporal Breval
- Raymond Aimos as Soldat Fouillard
- Antonin Artaud as Soldat Vieuble
- Paul Azaïs as Soldat Broucke
- René Bergeron as Soldat Hamel
- Raymond Cordy as Soldat Vairon
- Marcel Delaitre as Sergent Berthier
- Jean Galland as Capitaine Cruchet
- Pierre Labry as Soldat Bouffioux, Le Cuistot
- Geo Laby as Soldat Belin
- René Montis as Lieutenant Morache
- Jean-François Martial as Soldat Lemoine
- Marc Valbel as Maroux
References
- ^ "Wooden Crosses". filmaffinity.com. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
External links
- Wooden Crosses at IMDb
- Wooden Crosses at AllMovie
- Wooden Crosses at the TCM Movie Database
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Films directed by Raymond Bernard
- The Little Cafe (1919)
- Le secret de Rosette Lambert (1920)
- Le Miracle des loups (1924)
- The Chess Player (1927)
- Tarakanova (1930)
- Wooden Crosses (1932)
- Les Misérables (1934)
- Lovers and Thieves (1935)
- Anne-Marie (1936)
- The Mayor's Dilemma (1939)
- Love Cavalcade (1940)
- Maya (1949)
- Judgement of God (1952)
- The Lady of the Camellias (1953)
- The Seventh Commandment (1957)
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