The Enemy (1927)
A vivid drama of Austria and one side of the war known only to the women.
90 min
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.
- Release date
- December 8, 1927
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Lillian Gish as Pauli Arndt
- Ralph Forbes as Carl Behrend
- Ralph Emerson as Bruce Gordon
- Frank Currier as Prof. Arndt
- George Fawcett as August Behrend
- Fritzi Ridgeway as Mitzi Winkelmann
- John S. Peters as Fritz Winkelmann
- Karl Dane as Jan
- Polly Moran as Baruska
- Billy Kent Schaefer as Kurt
Crew
- Fred Niblo · Director
- John Colton · Writer
- Willis Goldbeck · Writer
- Agnes Christine Johnston · Writer
- Channing Pollock · Writer
- Fred Niblo · Producer
- Zdravko Milosavljevic · Composer
- Oliver T. Marsh · Cinematographer
- Margaret Booth · Editor