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A Mother's Love (1939 film)

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A Mother's Love
Directed byGustav Ucicky
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyHans Schneeberger
Edited byRudolf Schaad
Music byWilly Schmidt-Gentner
Production
company
Distributed byUFA
Release date
  • 19 December 1939 (1939-12-19)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

A Mother's Love or Mother Love (German: Mutterliebe) is a 1939 drama film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Käthe Dorsch, Paul Hörbiger and Wolf Albach-Retty.[1]

It was made by the Vienna-based Wien-Film which had been established following the German annexation of Austria the previous year. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Kurt Herlth and Werner Schlichting.

The film portrays the various sacrifices of a mother for her children. It was one of the comparatively few films made in Nazi Germany that celebrated the role of mothers in society, despite the Nazi Party's official promotion of a cult of motherhood.[2]

Cast

References

  1. ^ Bock & Bergfelder p. 374
  2. ^ Hake pp. 89–90

Bibliography

  • Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
  • Hake, Sabine (2013) [2002]. German National Cinema (2nd ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-02054-4.