La Revanche (1916 film)

La Revanche, also known as The Vengeance, is a 1916 Australian featurelength film directed by W. J. Lincoln about the revenge sought by Belgian friends of Edith Cavell against the Germans during World War I. It was a sequel to Nurse Cavell 1916, using many of the same cast and crew.

Following the execution of Edith Cavell the Germans continue to practice atrocities. Two friends of Cavell, a Belgian officer, Captain Devreaux, becomes determined to get revenge. Among the German outrages depicted included the flogging to death of a Belgian man who forgot to salute a German officer the shooting of an old man who objected to the treatment of Belgian girls the Kaiser awarding the Iron Cross to a man who murdered an innocent woman. In the end, the spy who denounced Cavell is shot by the Belgians. The German captain involved in the Cavells execution is shot by a Belgian woman he was assaulting.In the coming film the imaginary characters which figured in the first picture again appear, and what may be called a sequel to the tragic death of the nurse is worked out. As its title suggests, Le Revanche deals with the subsequent movements of the people associated with Nurse Cavell in the previous subject, who are actuated with a desire to avenge the martyrs death. Some sensational incidents are promised, culminating in the death of Captain Karl, the German officer who shot the wounded woman. The original cast has been retained, and the producers state that special attention has been paid to dressing and mounting, which will be on a particularly elaborate scale. Among the new characters which appear in La Ravanche is no less a dignitary than the Kaiser himself. ........

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