German filmmaker G.W. Pabst and Hollywood expatriate Louise Brooks re-team after the success of Pandora's Box for the silent film Diary of a Lost Girl. On the day of her confirmation, innocent young Thymiane Henning (Brooks) is given a lockable diary as a present. She's distraught because the housekeeper Elisabeth (Sibylle .. Read more
| Starring | Louise Brooks, Fritz Rasp, Edith Meinhard |
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| Director | Georg W. Pabst |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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German filmmaker G.W. Pabst and Hollywood expatriate Louise Brooks re-team after the success of Pandora's Box for the silent film Diary of a Lost Girl. On the day of her confirmation, innocent young Thymiane Henning (Brooks) is given a lockable diary as a present. She's distraught because the housekeeper Elisabeth (Sibylle Schmitz) is leaving under curious circumstances and turns up presumably dead. Her duties are taken over by the conniving Meta (Franziska Kinz), who accepts the advances of Thymiane's pharmacist father (Josef Ravensky). Trying to understand Elisabeth's fate, Thymiane agrees to meet her father's assistant, Meinert (Fritz Rasp). She passes out, he carries her up to her room, and by the next scene she has borne a child by him. Meta snoops in Thymiane's diary and finds out it was Meinert's baby, so she suggests they get married. Thymiane refuses, so they throw her in a creepy reformatory for fallen women and leave her baby with a midwife. While in the reformatory, she meets Erika (Edith Meinhard), with whom she eventually escapes. To escape from poverty and homelessness, the girls then become nominal prostitutes in a brothel and are sexually liberated. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
| Starring | Louise Brooks, Fritz Rasp, Edith Meinhard |
|---|---|
| Director | Georg W. Pabst |
| Studio | EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 46 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: German |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1929 To Rent: DVD: 21 May 2007 |
An elegant narrative of moral musical chairs, Pabst's last silent film not only plays on who holds what kind of... read more on Time Out
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'Diary Of A Lost Girl' (1929)
Excellent movie. Almost as good as Pandora;s Box.
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Brooks shines through
An average melodrama of a girls life when she is basically raped and thrown into a home and her subsequent hardships.
But the glowing presence of ... read more »
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Depressing but well done silent pic
I've not a lot of experience in watching silent films and initially found this hard to follow. I was also frustrated by the number of times a conversation ... read more »
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Not the Classic it's claimed to be.
A reasonable film but not the classic I was led to believe so a bit disappointing. The film did cover some subject matter (rape, prostitution) that I was ... read more »
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