Story of French prisoner in Germany who falls in love with a German general's daughter. From the novel "Axelle" by Pierre Benoit.
Acting
Warner Baxter smolders; Leila Hyams is arch and knowing.
Costume
Military glam that makes POW camps weirdly chic.
Director
William K. Howard
Warner Baxter
Sergeant Dumaine
Leila Hyams
Axelle von Meirbach
Ralph Bellamy
Captain Ebbing
C. Aubrey Smith
Count Reichendorf
Alexander Kirkland
Major Dietrich Reichendorf
William Pawley
Gourrut
Howard Phillips
Claverie
George Beranger
Fichet
J. Carrol Naish
French Prisoner of War (uncredited)
Virginia Weidler
Little Girl (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Weimar era but released as Nazism rose—its German aristocrat romance aged weirdly fast.
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