Woman Without a Past

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Woman Without a Past
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Directed by Nunzio Malasomma
Written by
Starring
Cinematography Willy Winterstein
Edited byAlexandra Anatra
Music by Hans Carste
Production
company
Euphono-Film
Distributed byPanorama Film
Release date
  • 18 July 1939 (1939-07-18)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryGermany
Language German

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.

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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.

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References

  1. Moeller, p. 89.
  2. Klaus p.60

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