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.
Maria Andergast
Iván Petrovich
Theodor Loos
Rudolf Platte
Ilse Petri
Willi Schaeffers
Julia Serda
Carmen Lahrmann
Erich Dunskus
Walter Steinbeck
Karl Platen
Oskar Höcker
Michael von Newlinsky
Peer Baedecker
Wilmo Schäfer
Kurt Iller
Gustav Püttjer
Hedi Bert
Gerhard Dammann
Max Wilmsen
Ilse Abel
Raffles Bill
Peter Busse
Fanny Cotta
Fritz Draeger
Herbert Ernst Groh
Eugen von Bongardt