Monika (1938 film)

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.

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 (1938-01-05)
Country	Germany
Language	German

Synopsis

An unmarried German engineer and singer have a child together in Sao 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

Bibliography

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

External links

• Monika at IMDb