Diary of a Lost Girl

Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen, feature film, 1929

DIRECTED BY: Georg Pabst

Diary of a Lost Girl

CAST:
Louise Brooks (Thymiane),
André Roanne (grof Nicolas Osdorff),
Josef Rovenský (Robert Henning),
Fritz Rasp (Meinert),
Vera Pawlowa (teta Frieda)

SCRIPT:
Rudolf Leonhardt (prema romanu Margarete Böhme)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Sepp Allgeier,
Fritz Arno Wagner

Synopsis:
Thymiane is a naďve young girl without much luck on her side. After her father’s employee rapes her, she becomes pregnant. She refuses to marry her rapist and the authorities take away her child and send her to a reform school. Soon she manages to run away from the school with Count Osdorff’s help. She learns that her child is dead and she ends up in a brothel…

b/w, silent, 104 min