Woman Without a Past (1939 film)

Woman Without a Past
Directed by	Nunzio Malasomma
Written by	Curt J. Braun (novel) Charles Klein Harald G. Petersson
Starring	Sybille Schmitz Albrecht Schoenhals Maria von Tasnady
Cinematography	Willy Winterstein
Edited by	Alexandra Anatra
Music by	Hans Carste
Production company	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.

• 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.

• Woman Without a Past at IMDb

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