Single Mother (film)

Single Mother
Directed by	Fred Sauer
Written by	Fred Sauer Walter Wassermann
Produced by	Georg Jacoby
Starring	Victor Colani Werner Fuetterer Lilian Hardt
Cinematography	Arpad Viragh
Production company	Orplid-Film
Distributed by	Messtro-Orplid
Release date	February 14, 1928 (1928-02-14) (Berlin)
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent German intertitles

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.

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.

External links

• Single Mother at IMDb