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.
as Marie Ducrot
as Count Karl von Hagen
as Le Bete
as The Orderly
as Grandfather Ducrot
as Lt. Franz Geyer
as Dog (uncredited)
as Bar Maid
as Soldier
