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La Première Guerre mondiale commence et un jeune homme s'engage afin de se battre pour son pays.La Première Guerre mondiale commence et un jeune homme s'engage afin de se battre pour son pays.La Première Guerre mondiale commence et un jeune homme s'engage afin de se battre pour son pays.
Raymond Aimos
- Soldat Fouillard
- (as Aimos)
Antonin Artaud
- Soldat Vieublé
- (as Artaud A.)
René Bergeron
- Soldat Hamel
- (as Bergeron)
Raymond Cordy
- Soldat Vairon
- (as R. Cordy)
Marcel Delaître
- Sergent Berthier
- (as Delaitre)
Jean Galland
- Capitaine Cruchet
- (as Galland)
Pierre Labry
- Soldat Bouffioux, le cuistot
- (as Labry Pierre)
Geo Laby
- Soldat Belin
- (as Laby Géo)
René Montis
- Lieutenant Morache
- (as Montis)
Jean-François Martial
- Soldat Lemoine
- (as J.F. Martial)
Marc Valbel
- Maroux
- (as Valbel)
Christian-Jaque
- Un lieutenant
- (uncredited)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesHistorian Georges Sadoul relates that the impression made by this memory of WWI was so powerful that one of the original combatants, seeing it on French TV in 1962,almost fifty years after the war, was disturbed enough to take his own life.
- Autres versionsThere is an Italian edition of this film on DVD, distributed by DNA Srl: "LE CROCI DI LEGNO (1932) + PER LA PATRIA (J'Accuse, 1919)" (2 Films on a single DVD). The film has been re-edited with the contribution of film historian Riccardo Cusin. This version is also available for streaming on some platforms.
- ConnexionsEdited into The Road to Glory (1936)
- Bandes originalesAve Maria
Written by Franz Schubert
Commentaire en vedette
The Best French film ever made about any war.
One reviewer accuses "Les Croix de Bois" of not giving any reason/explanation/philosophical whatever for the Great War.
He terribly missed the point.
"Les Croix de Bois" is adapted from one of the most famous French novel written about WWI. Roland Dorgeles was a veteran and his main purpose was to talk about his own experience and not "to make a point" against war.
The movie is just about that. Recrating an experience. A terrible one.
Raymond Bernard was himself a veteran and it shows. The depiction of the life in the trenches is vivid. We feel under our skin the misery of the soldiers, their small moment of joy and their fear in front of something to big to be comprehended. You do not think of philosophy when machine guns are screaming at you.
Raymond Bernard employed a lot of actors and crew members who actually were in the trenches and he managed to show war on a daily basis from the smallest event to the major assaults. The 10 minutes battle in the middle of the film is so realistic that it looks like a war documentary. In the early thirties the former battle sites were not just memories. The scars were still there. Waiting for the next ones.
The acting is a bit dated, particularly Pierre Blanchar who has a tendency to overplay and is far too old for the role. But he fought too during the war and his fixed eyes are the result of a gas attack.
This movie is to be put alongside "Battleground" or "A Walk in the Sun". The Zero Level of War. Just Men alone and scarred. No reasons, no explanations, and certainly no Philisophy.
He terribly missed the point.
"Les Croix de Bois" is adapted from one of the most famous French novel written about WWI. Roland Dorgeles was a veteran and his main purpose was to talk about his own experience and not "to make a point" against war.
The movie is just about that. Recrating an experience. A terrible one.
Raymond Bernard was himself a veteran and it shows. The depiction of the life in the trenches is vivid. We feel under our skin the misery of the soldiers, their small moment of joy and their fear in front of something to big to be comprehended. You do not think of philosophy when machine guns are screaming at you.
Raymond Bernard employed a lot of actors and crew members who actually were in the trenches and he managed to show war on a daily basis from the smallest event to the major assaults. The 10 minutes battle in the middle of the film is so realistic that it looks like a war documentary. In the early thirties the former battle sites were not just memories. The scars were still there. Waiting for the next ones.
The acting is a bit dated, particularly Pierre Blanchar who has a tendency to overplay and is far too old for the role. But he fought too during the war and his fixed eyes are the result of a gas attack.
This movie is to be put alongside "Battleground" or "A Walk in the Sun". The Zero Level of War. Just Men alone and scarred. No reasons, no explanations, and certainly no Philisophy.
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- fbarthet
- 29 juill. 2014
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