

76 minutes
1/19/1932
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in France. The fact that the incident occurred in war does not assuage his guilt. He travels to Germany to meet the man's family.

Lionel Barrymore
as Dr. H. Holderlin

Phillips Holmes
as Paul Renard

Nancy Carroll
as Fraulein Elsa

Louise Carter
as Frau Holderlin

Lucien Littlefield
as Herr Walter Schultz

Tom Douglas
as Walter Holderlin

Zasu Pitts
as Anna, Holderlin's Maid

Frank Sheridan
as Priest
George Bickel
as Herr Bresslauer, Dress Shop Owner

Emma Dunn
as Frau Miller
Reginald Pasch
as Fritz's Father
Rodney McLennan
as War Veteran

George Irving
as Townsman (uncredited)

Marjorie Main
as Frau Schmidt - Townswoman (uncredited)

Tully Marshall
as Gravedigger (uncredited)

George Davis

Robert Dudley

Lillian Elliott

Julia Swayne Gordon
Kate MacKenna

Torben Meyer

Russ Powell

Joan Standing
Marvin Stephens

John Steppling
Louis Van der Ecker
Anton Vaverka

Dorothy Vernon

Paul Weigel
Lottie Williams