The stamp of the Netherlandish Central Committee for Film Censorship at the upper right of this poster indicates that it was used to promote this West German film in that region. The movie was shot at Tempelhof Studios in West Berlin and tells the story of a German woman on the run after World War II who finds her lost son living at the home of the aristocrats who give her domestic work. Kurt Wendt, the designer, created several promotional posters for Don’t Ask My Heart, including one illustrating the three lead actors. This illustrated poster is based on another one showing a still from the film in which the mother prays in a chapel. Wendt made numerous travel and film posters from the 1930s onward and during the 1950s seems to have specialized in melodramatic scenes from both German and foreign films. His work was ideally suited to the Deutsche London Film, one of the largest West German film distribution companies between 1940 and 1956. It responded to the ever-expanding demand for popular domestic and imported films as the German economy and film industry recovered after the war.