Mother Love
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A melodrama about a self-sacrificing mother who, after her husband is struck by lightning, has to raise her three sons and one daughter alone. She buys a small laundry in Vienna and does everything she can to give her children a good life. When one of her employees becomes pregnant by one of her sons, she demands that the two marry. Another son has to leave home after an argument. The third son goes blind. For him, the mother makes her greatest sacrifice: she donates her cornea. Finally, she reconciles with the son who left home and, as a grandmother, can look back on a difficult but fulfilling life.
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Edited by Rudolf SchaadShot by Hans SchneebergerScored by Willy Schmidt GentnerDesigned by Kurt Herlth
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19 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Kathe Dorsch
as Marthe Pirlinger
Paul Horbiger
as Notar Dr. Koblmüller
Wolf Albach Retty
as Walter Pirlinger - 1922
Hans Holt
as Paul Pirlinger - 1922
Hans Hotter
as Josef Pirlinger
Rudolf Prack
as Felix Pirlinger - 1922
Susi Nicoletti
as Franzi Pirlinger - 1922
Siegfried Breuer
as Kammersänger
Frida Richard
as Frau Stätter - alte Waschfrau
Olly Holzmann
as Hanna Pirlinger
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