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.
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
