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1939 film

Woman Without a Past
Directed by Nunzio Malasomma
Written by Curt J. Braun (novel)Charles KleinHarald G. Petersson
Starring Sybille SchmitzAlbrecht SchoenhalsMaria von Tasnady
Cinematography Willy Winterstein
Edited by Alexandra Anatra
Music by Hans Carste
Productioncompany Euphono-Film
Distributed by Panorama Film
Release date 18 July 1939 (1939-07-18)
Running time 89 minutes
Country Germany
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.

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.

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