The Awakening

Release Date: 1928-11-17

Overview: 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.

Rating: 5 / 10

Cast

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