The Belgian est un film muet américain, produit et réalisé par Sidney Olcott avec Valentine Grant et Walker Whitedise dans les rôles principaux, et sorti aux États-Unis en 1918. Une histoire qui se déroule en Belgique durant la Première Guerre mondiale.
Synopsis
As described in a film magazine, two simple Belgian folk, Jeanne (Grant) and Victor (Whiteside), love each other. Victor is a gifted sculptor and is taken to Paris for training. There he meets Countess de Vries (Crute) and becomes infatuated. She is a German spy and meets many military men through him. Berger (Randolf), the postmaster in Belgium who is also a German spy, wants Jeanne for his wife. She resists him and goes to the church for protection. The machinations of the German secret service include every possible torment for those oppressed by their power, and when war is declared Jeanne would have suffered greatly had not Berger been killed when Victor was wounded. Jeanne nurses Victor back to health and over his heartbreak for the countess. True love returns, and together they work for Belgium and watch for the troops of a larger but not greater nation to come to their aid.
Une femme est arrêtée pour vagabondage et raconte son histoire à un juge. Son mari et deux de ses fils, qui combattaient durant la Guerre de Sécession l'un chez les Confédérés et l'autre pour l'Union sont morts. Son dernier fils, perdu avant la guerre, se révèle être le juge.