A Mother's Love (1939 film)

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A Mother's Love
A Mother's Love (1939 film).jpg
German film poster
German Mutterliebe
Directed by Gustav Ucicky
Written byHans Flemming (novel)
Gerhard Menzel
Produced by Karl Hartl
Erich von Neusser
Starring
Cinematography Hans Schneeberger
Edited by Rudolf Schaad
Music by Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Production
company
Distributed by UFA
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]

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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]

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