Monika (1938 film)

Monika
Monika
Directed by	Heinz Helbig
Written by	Erich Ebermayer (novel); Heinz Helbig;
Produced by	Gustav Althoff; Walter Tost;
Starring	Maria Andergast; Iván Petrovich; Theodor Loos;
Cinematography	Edgar S. Ziesemer
Music by	Gerhard Winkler
Production; company	Aco-Film
Distributed by	Various
Release date	5 January 1938;
Country	Germany
Language	German

Monika or A Mother Fights for Her Child (German: Eine Mutter kämpft um ihr Kind) is a 1938 German drama film directed by Heinz Helbig and starring Maria Andergast, Iván Petrovich, and Theodor Loos.^[1]

Synopsis

An unmarried German engineer and singer have a child together in São Paulo. Due to her ambitions for her career she abandons the daughter, leaving her in the care of the father who returns to Germany. Eight years later the mother, now a famous film star, demands custody of the daughter.

Cast

Maria Andergast as Barbara Daalen
Iván Petrovich as Dr. Michael Holt
Carmen Lahrmann as Monika
Theodor Loos as Professor Waldeck
Willi Schaeffers as Film Director
Rudolf Platte as Camera Man
Julia Serda as Frau von Schadow
Ilse Petri as Inge, Monika's Friend
Walter Steinbeck as Manager Wallen
Erich Dunskus as Hotel Director
Gustav Püttjer as Oberleutnant
Karl Platen as Diener
Peer Baedecker as Knapp
Max Wilmsen as Geheimrat
Ilse Abel as Krankenschwester
Herbert Ernst Groh as Singer
Kurt Iller as Gast der Kaschemme
Oskar Höcker as Thielmann
Peter Busse as Der Wirt
Fanny Cotta as Krankenschwest
Gerhard Dammann as Der Schalplattenverkäufer
Fritz Draeger as Statist bei d. Aufnahme in Hotel
Eugen von Bongardt as Dr. Scherber
Wilmo Schäfer
Raffles Bill

References

^ Hake, Sabine (2001). Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. Austin: University of Texas Press. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-292-73458-6.

External links

Monika at IMDb

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[1] Hake, Sabine (2001). Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. Austin: University of Texas Press. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-292-73458-6.

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