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.^[1]

The film's art direction was by Willi Herrmann.

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.

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

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

• Single Mother at IMDb