Single Mother (film) explained

Single Mother or Unwed Mothers (German: Ledige Mütter, lit. Unwed Mothers) is a 1928 German silent drama film directed by Fred Sauer and starring Victor Colani, Werner Fuetterer, and Lilian Hardt.^[1]

The film's art direction was by Willi Herrmann.

Plot

A young woman who works as a stenographer falls in love with an engineer. In order to establish the financial basis for their marriage, the engineer takes a position in Mexico which will separate them for a few years, but when he leaves the woman does not tell him that she is pregnant. She asks a second woman who is an unwed mother to live with her and her mother.

Cast

In alphabetical order

• • • • • Victor Colani Werner Fuetterer Lilian Hardt Paul Henckels Margot Landa
• Eberhard Leithoff
  • • • Ellen Plessow Lydia Potechina Frida Richard Margarete Schlegel
      • Walter Slezak Helga Thomas Hermann Vallentin Hertha von Walther

Bibliography

• Grange, William. Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic. Scarecrow Press, 2008.

Notes and References

1. Grange p. 278