Nurse Edith Cavell

original title:
Nurse Edith Cavell
country / year of production:
USA / 1939
original length:
95 min. , black/white
premiere:
1 September 1939
genre:
history film
based on:
Reginald Berkeley. Dawn. A biographical novel of Edith Cavell. New York: Sears, 1928.
director:
Herbert Sydney Wilcox
film script:
Reginald Berkeley , Edith Cavell
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cast (role):
Anna Neagle , Edna May Oliver , George Sanders
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plot synopsis:
The film deals with the ledgendary Edith Cavell, who rescued refugee soldiers during World War I in Belgium. As a result she is arrested and sentenced to death.
keywords:
based on a true story , nurse , liberation , execution , war crimes , escape
war:
First World War (1914-1918)
literature:
Theodore Felstead. Edith Cavell. The crime that shook the world. Written from the dossier of the German Secret Police and the personal narratives of survivors. London: Newnes, 1940.

Charles Sarolea. The Murder of nurse Cavell. London: Allen & Unwin, 1915.

Kathleen White. Edith Cavell. Basingstoke: Marshalls, 1985.
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Homepage: http://www.edithcavell.org.uk/

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/5/0,1872,2195557,00.html

Was nominated for an "Oscar" in 1940.
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