Funny that nobody mentions that "Fourty Little Mothers" is a remake of Hugo Haas' and Jan Alfréd Holmans's 1937 Czech film "Devcata, nedejte se!", which is, in its turn, a remake of (or it's highly inspired by) 1936 French film "Le Mioche", directed by Léonid Moguy. I am familiar just with "Devcata", and, in my opinion, this is a far more brilliant and deeply moving movie. Maybe it can be found on commercial circuits, I don't know: in a very famous online platform, "Devcata, nedejte se!" can be found and watched, for free. But only in Czech, and without captions. This is not a particular handicap: as in most good works of cinematic art you will be able to catch (almost) all of its meaning even if you don't know the language.
Review of Forty Little Mothers
