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.
Directed by Heinz Helbig
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Maria Andergast
Barbara Daalen

Iván Petrovich
Dr. Michael Holt

Theodor Loos
Professor Waldeck

Rudolf Platte
Camera Man
Ilse Petri
Inge

Willi Schaeffers
Film Director

Julia Serda
Frau von Schadow
Carmen Lahrmann
Monika Holt

Erich Dunskus
Hoteldirector

Walter Steinbeck
Manager Wallen

Karl Platen
Diener
Oskar Höcker
Thielmann

Michael von Newlinsky
Peer Baedecker
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