Woman Without a Past (1939 film)

For the French film, see Woman Without a Past (1948 film).

Woman Without a Past
Directed byNunzio Malasomma
Written by
Starring
CinematographyWilly Winterstein
Edited byAlexandra Anatra
Music byHans Carste
Production
company
Euphono-Film
Distributed byPanorama Film
Release date
  • 18 July 1939 (1939-07-18)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Woman Without a Past (German: Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit) is a 1939 German drama film directed by Nunzio Malasomma and starring Sybille Schmitz, Albrecht Schoenhals, and Maria von Tasnady.[1] It was shot at the Grunewald and Johannisthal Studios in Berlin.[2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Ledersteger.

Synopsis

After an accident, a young woman completely loses her memory and forgets who she is. She is discovered with a gun in her handbag and the police are called. A sympathetic neurologist takes her on as his laboratory assistant while he works on a cure for malaria. Then her husband arrives and her memory returns. It was his gun and she had seized it after he committed murder.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Moeller, p. 89.
  2. ^ Klaus p.60

Bibliography

  • Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1939. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.
  • Moeller, Felix (2000). The Film Minister: Goebbels and the Cinema in the Third Reich. Translated by Robinson, Michael. Stuttgart: Axel Menges. ISBN 978-3-932565-10-6.


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