Tim Bergfelder (Southampton) p.63-80
2013 Issue 3
Sondernummer zum Thema: Der frühe deutsche Nachkriegsfilm
Herausgegeben von Martina Moeller
Abstract
This essay analyses the post-war West German psychological women’s melodrama,Das verlorene Gesicht (The Lost Face, 1948), and investigates its international influences (Hollywood and British traditions of melodrama), and the film’s articulation of issues such as gender and national identity through aspects such as cinematography, mise-en-scène, and performance. The essay also places the film within the contexts of developments in film production in post-war Germany, and reassesses it in the context of the career of its director, Kurt Hoffmann.