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.
Gustav Ucicky
Director

Käthe Dorsch
Marthe Pirlinger

Paul Hörbiger
Notar Dr. Koblmüller

Wolf Albach-Retty
Walter Pirlinger - 1922

Hans Holt
Paul Pirlinger - 1922

Rudolf Prack
Felix Pirlinger - 1922

Susi Nicoletti
Franzi Pirlinger - 1922

Siegfried Breuer
Kammersänger

Olly Holzmann
Hanna Pirlinger

Winnie Markus
Rosl Pirlinger
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