Dawn

original title:
Dawn
country / year of production:
Great Britain / 1928
original length:
90 min. , black/white
premiere:
USA: 3 June 1928
genre:
Silent movie
based on:
Reginald Berkeley. Dawn. A biographical novel of Edith Cavell. New York: Sears, 1928.
director:
Herbert Sydney Wilcox
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keywords:
based on a true story , nurse , prisoners of war , execution , war crimes
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.
remarks:
One of the most controversial British films of the 1920s.

Homepage: http://www.edithcavell.org.uk/

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