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Ian Hay (writer)
W.P. Lipscomb (writer)
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Release Date:
15 December 1933 (USA) more
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During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Madeleine Carroll ... Martha Cnockhaert
Herbert Marshall ... Stephan
Conrad Veidt ... Commandant Oberaertz
Edmund Gwenn ... Burgomaster
Gerald du Maurier ... Doctor
Donald Calthrop ... Cnockhaert
May Agate ... Mme. Cnockhaert
Eva Moore ... Canteen Ma
Martita Hunt ... Aunt Lucille
Nigel Bruce ... Scottie
George Merritt ... Captain Reichman
Anthony Bushell ... Otto
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89 min
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Flanders at war, 10 October 2005
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Author: yvan-adam1 from Belgium

There is a problem with this movie: a Flemish nurse gives indications to the British warplanes to bombard German troops being in the open field and then there after she is nursing the soldiers that she was betraying. Martha Knockaert was not a Mata Hari but she was dangerous and by her behavior she killed a lot of people. Her trial by the Germans military is correct as it was by that time in the West Flanders in 1916. The movie shows us the German troops at the market place in full exercise which gives the movie a moment of real authenticity. Also the "café" scenes with the German officers are real. Roeselare was at that time a backward city with a rural population but now it is the nerve of a commercial region. It is the only movie ever made about this town.

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