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The Lost Face

1948 · 98 min

A slow, unsettling psychological drama where a fragile romance curdles into something strange and uncertain.

Overview
A clearly confused girl is found wandering around Stuttgart and can't be understood, because she's speaking in a foreign language. The police take her to some doctors, who eventually believe they're dealing with a Tibetan. Doctor von Aldenhoff takes the stranger in and begins to educate her according to western European standards. In her new home, the girl, Luscha, gets to know Robert Lorm, a rather well-travelled man, and falls in love with him. Eventually, she decides quite unilaterally that they're going to build a new home and life together. A plaster of paris mask of the girl's face is made for the doctors to keep as a remembrance of Luscha. But as soon as the mold is removed from her face, she suddenly seems to become an entirely different woman.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • love
  • isolation
  • memory
  • trauma
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror3
Humour1
Realism7
Romance4
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
thriller, mystery
Directed by
Kurt Hoffmann
Written by
Harald Braun
Starring
Marianne Hoppe, Gustav Fröhlich, Richard Häussler, Paul Dahlke, Hermine Körner, Harald Mannl, Rudolf Vogel, Walter Kiaulehn
Music
Lothar Brühne
Cinematography
Franz Koch
Runtime
98 min
Country
Germany
Languages
German

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