Click here to visit our new site --> CafeDVD 2.0 Raymond Bernard: Eclipse From The Criterion Collection (2007) Rating: Starring: Director: Raymond Bernard Category: Drama, Foreign, War Studio: Criterion Subtitles: English Length: 392 mins     One of the greatest and least-known filmmakers of all time, Raymond Bernard helped shape France's national cinema into one of the world's most formidable Hollywood alternatives. Typical of films from the largely unheralded period, between the silent era and the rise of poetic realism, Bernard's dazzling dramas painted intimate melodrama on epic-scale canvases. These two masterpieces-the wrenching World War I tragedy Wooden Crosses and a mammoth, nearly five-hour Les Miserables, widely considered the greatest film adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel-exemplify the formal and narrative brilliance of an unjustly overshadowed cinematic trailblazer.