The Awakening

The Awakening (1928)

RomanceDrama

A French country lass Marie Ducrot, name is "mud" after she is compromised by a German soldier . Turning to religion, Banky becomes one of the "sisters in white" in the field hospitals of World War 1. THE AWAKENING was nominated by the Academy for its Art Direction in the first transitional year of the talkies. A vast number of films from this year are lost and this is no exception. No print or negative materials are known to exist at this time. William Cameron Menzies received his third nomination for this film, having received two the prior year and winning for both.

Director: Victor Fleming

Casts

	Vilma Banky as Marie Ducrot
	Walter Byron as Count Karl von Hagen
	Louis Wolheim as Le Bete
	George Davis as The Orderly
	William Orlamond as Grandfather Ducrot
	Carl von Haartman as Lt. Franz Geyer
	Rex the Dog as Dog (uncredited)
	Yola d'Avril as
	David Findlay as
	Arno Frey as
	Owen Gorin as
	George Jackson as
	Carmencita Johnson as
	Virginia Jolley as
	Anna Kaloustian as
	Jean Laverty as Bar Maid
	Babe London as
	Dan Mason as
	Jack McDonald as Soldier
	Sam Savitsky as
	Henry Schultz as
	Ferdinand Schumann-Heink as
	Paul Vasel as
	Ann Warrington as
	Bert Woodruff as

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