Monika

Name: Monika
Director: Heinz Helbig
Genre: Drama
Released: 1938-01-05
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 9
Cast: Maria Andergast, Iván Petrovich, Theodor Loos, Rudolf Platte, Ilse Petri

9.0(1)19381h 24mDE

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 set.