The Enemy

A vivid drama of Austria and one side of the war known only to the women.

APPROPIATE

1927 / 90min.

Rating5.5

Genres

Drama

Romance

War

Synopsis

Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli and her family and friends are left behind to experience the suffering which befell civilians during the war. Her luck worsens when her father is dismissed from his professorship for teaching that war is evil. Her father argues violently with Carl's father, and degradation and despair descend on Pauli and her family as they await Carl's return from the front.

Directors

Fred Niblo

Actors

Joel McCrea

Ralph Forbes

George Fawcett

Lillian Gish

Billy Kent Schaefer

Karl Dane

Frank Currier

Fritzi Ridgeway

Ralph Emerson

Louise Emmons

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