''A Mother's Love'' or ''Mother Love'' () is a 1939
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
directed by
Gustav Ucicky
Gustav Ucicky (6 July 1899 – 27 April 1961) was an Austrians, Austrian film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. He was one of the more successful directors in Austria and Germany from the 1930s through to the early 1960s. His work cov ...
and starring
Käthe Dorsch
Katharina "Käthe" Dorsch (, 29 December 1890 – 25 December 1957) was a German stage and film actor.
Biography
Katharina Dorsch was born on 29 December 1890 at 5:30 P.M. in the Kingdom of Bavaria, Bavarian town of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, th ...
,
Paul Hörbiger
Paul Hörbiger (29 April 1894 – 5 March 1981) was an Austrians, Austrian theatre and film actor.
Life and work
Paul Hörbiger was born in the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, Hungarian capital Budapest, then part of Austria-Hungary, the ...
and
Wolf Albach-Retty
Wolf Albach-Retty (born Wolfgang Helmuth Albert Albach; 28 May 1906 – 21 February 1967) was an Austrian actor. He was the father of Romy Schneider with the German actress Magda Schneider.
Career
Born as Wolfgang Helmuth Albert Albach in Vienna ...
.
It was made by the
Vienna
Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...
-based
Wien-Film
Wien-Film GmbH ("Vienna Film Limited") was a large Austrian film company, which in 1938 succeeded the Tobis-Sascha-Filmindustrie AG (Sascha Film Company) and lasted until 1985. Until 1945 the business was owned by the Cautio Trust Company (''Cauti ...
which had been established following the
German annexation of Austria the previous year. The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...
s
Kurt Herlth
Kurt Herlth (1896–1966) was a German art director known for his designs of film sets. His brother Robert Herlth was also an art director active in the German film industry, and the two men worked together a number of times.Bock & Bergfelder p.1 ...
and
Werner Schlichting
Werner Schlichting (1904–1996) was a German art director who worked on over a hundred films during a lengthy career. He worked on a number of Austrian films including '' The Congress Dances'' and '' The Last Ten Days'' (1955).Fritsche p.253
Sel ...
.
The film portrays the various sacrifices of a mother for her children. It was one of the comparatively few films made in
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalit ...
that celebrated the role of mothers in society, despite the Nazi Party's official promotion of a cult of motherhood.
Cast
References
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1939 drama films
Films of Nazi Germany
Austrian drama films
German drama films
Films directed by Gustav Ucicky
UFA GmbH films
German black-and-white films
1930s German films
1930s German-language films
Films scored by Willy Schmidt-Gentner
German-language drama films
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