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Monika
Directed by
Heinz Helbig
Monika (German: Eine Mutter kämpft um ihr Kind, lit. 'A Mother Fights for Her Child') is a 1938 German melodrama film directed and written by Heinz Helbig. The story centers on a singer who relinquishes her illegitimate daughter to a German engineer in São Paulo to pursue her career, only to return eight years later as a celebrated film star and wife of a prominent surgeon, demanding custody after encountering the child on a film …
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Monika (German: Eine Mutter kämpft um ihr Kind, lit. 'A Mother Fights for Her Child') is a 1938 German melodrama film directed and written by Heinz Helbig. The story centers on a singer who relinquishes her illegitimate daughter to a German engineer in São Paulo to pursue her career, only to return eight years later as a celebrated film star and wife of a prominent surgeon, demanding custody after encountering the child on a film set.
Cast
Maria AndergastBarbara Daalen
Iván PetrovichDr. Michael Holt
Theodor LoosProfessor Waldeck
Rudolf PlatteCamera Man
Ilse PetriInge
Willi SchaeffersFilm Director
Julia SerdaFrau von Schadow
Carmen LahrmannMonika Holt
Erich DunskusHoteldirector
Walter SteinbeckManager Wallen
Karl PlatenDiener
Oskar HöckerThielmann
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Michael von Newlinsky
Peer Baedecker
Wilmo Schäfer
Kurt IllerGast der Kaschemme
Gustav PüttjerOberleutnant
Hedi Bert
Gerhard DammannDer Schallplattenverkäufer
Max WilmsenGeheimrat
Ilse AbelKrankenschwester
Raffles Bill
Peter BusseDer Wirt
Fanny CottaKrankenschwester
Fritz DraegerStatist bei d.Aufnahme in Hotel
Herbert Ernst GrohSinger (Heimatland)
Eugen von BongardtDr. Scherber
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