Diary of a Lost Girl (German: Tagebuch einer Verlorenen) is a 1929 silent film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. It is shot in black and white, and various versions of the film range from 79 minutes to 116 minutes in length. This was Brooks's second and final film with Pabst, and like their prior collaboration (1928's Pandora's Box), it is considered a classic film.
Louise Brooks plays Thymian Henning, the innocent and naive daughter of pharmacist...
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Diary of a Lost Girl (German: Tagebuch einer Verlorenen) is a 1929 silent film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. It is shot in black and white, and various versions of the film range from 79 minutes to 116 minutes in length. This was Brooks's second and final film with Pabst, and like their prior collaboration (1928's Pandora's Box), it is considered a classic film.
Louise Brooks plays Thymian Henning, the innocent and naive daughter of pharmacist Robert Henning (Josef Rovenský). Thymian is seduced by her father's assistant Meinert (Fritz Rasp) and gives birth to an illegitimate child. Meinert is revealed to be the father by an entry in Thymian's diary, and when she refuses to marry him she is forced to leave the baby with a midwife and sent to a strict reform school for wayward girls. Rebelling against the school's rigid discipline, Thymian and her friend Erika (Edith Meinhard) escape with the help of her father's old friend, Count Osdorff (André Roanne), but they separate. Thymian's...
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