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[[Louise Brooks]] plays Thymian Henning, the innocent and naive daughter of pharmacist Robert Henning ([[Josef Rovenský]]). Thymian is |
[[Louise Brooks]] plays Thymian Henning, the innocent and naive daughter of pharmacist Robert Henning ([[Josef Rovenský]]). Thymian is raped by her father's assistant Meinert ([[Fritz Rasp]]) while unconscious 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 relief is short-lived—she discovers that her baby is dead—and after despondently wandering the streets, she re-unites with Erika, who is working in a [[brothel]]. Thymian also becomes a [[prostitute]], but profits from her misfortune by gaining control of her own life. When her father dies, she inherits a large amount of money, after gaining "respectability" by marrying Osdorff, but gives it all to her young half-sister who has been disinherited. Osdorff, who had been counting on the money because he himself had been disinherited by his uncle ([[Arnold Korff]]), kills himself. The uncle, grief-stricken, makes Thymian his heir. In a strange twist of fate, she becomes a director of the reform school where she herself was once held. When her old friend is brought in as an "especially difficult case" who "constantly turns away from the blessings of our home", Thymian denounces the school and its "blessings". Uncle Osdorff has the last word: "A little more love and no-one would be lost in this world." |
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| Diary of a Lost Girl | |
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| Directed by | G.W. Pabst |
| Written by | Margarete Böhme Rudolf Leonhardt |
| Produced by | G.W. Pabst |
| Starring | Louise Brooks Fritz Rasp André Roanne Josef Ravensky Franziska Kinz |
| Cinematography | Sepp Allgeier Fritz Arno Wagner |
Release date | October 15, 1929 (Germany) |
| Country | Germany |
| Languages | Silent film German intertitles |
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 last film with Pabst, and like their prior collaboration (1928's Pandora's Box), it is considered a classic film. The film was based on the controversial and bestselling book of the same name, Tagebuch einer Verlorenen, by Margarete Böhme.
Plot summary
Louise Brooks plays Thymian Henning, the innocent and naive daughter of pharmacist Robert Henning (Josef Rovenský). Thymian is raped by her father's assistant Meinert (Fritz Rasp) while unconscious 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 relief is short-lived—she discovers that her baby is dead—and after despondently wandering the streets, she re-unites with Erika, who is working in a brothel. Thymian also becomes a prostitute, but profits from her misfortune by gaining control of her own life. When her father dies, she inherits a large amount of money, after gaining "respectability" by marrying Osdorff, but gives it all to her young half-sister who has been disinherited. Osdorff, who had been counting on the money because he himself had been disinherited by his uncle (Arnold Korff), kills himself. The uncle, grief-stricken, makes Thymian his heir. In a strange twist of fate, she becomes a director of the reform school where she herself was once held. When her old friend is brought in as an "especially difficult case" who "constantly turns away from the blessings of our home", Thymian denounces the school and its "blessings". Uncle Osdorff has the last word: "A little more love and no-one would be lost in this world."
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