Overview - The Awakening

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.

Cast

• Name: Vilma Banky

  Character: Marie Ducrot

  Popularity: 0.2733

  

• Name: Walter Byron

  Character: Count Karl von Hagen

  Popularity: 0.4588

  

• Name: Louis Wolheim

  Character: Le Bete

  Popularity: 0.0947

  

• Name: George Davis

  Character: The Orderly

  Popularity: 0.478

  

• Name: William Orlamond

  Character: Grandfather Ducrot

  Popularity: 0.2146

  

• Name: Carl von Haartman

  Character: Lt. Franz Geyer

  Popularity: 0.193

  

• Name: Rex the Dog

  Character: Dog (uncredited)

  Popularity: 0.1795

  

• Name: Yola d'Avril

  Character:

  Popularity: 2.0655