Rent Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
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1h 47min
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- Synopsis:
A masterwork of the German Silent Cinema whose reputation has only increased over time, 'Diary of a Lost Girl' traces the journey of a young woman from the pit of despair to the moment of personal awakening. Directed with virtuoso flair by the great G.W. Pabst, 'Diary of a Lost Girl' represents the final pairing of the filmmaker with screen icon Louise Brooks, mere months after their first collaboration in the now-legendary Pandora's Box. Brooks plays Thymian Henning, an unprepossessing young woman seduced by an unscrupulous and mercenary character employed at her father's pharmacy (played with gusto by Fritz Rasp, the degenerate villain of such Fritz Lang classics as Metropolis, Spione, and Frau im Mond). After Thymian gives birth to the child and subsequently rejects her family's expectations for marriage, the baby is stripped from her care, and Thymian is relegated to a purgatorial reform school that functions less as an educational institution and more like a conduit for fulfilling the headmistress's sadistic sexual fantasies. - Actors:
- Louise Brooks, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp, André Roanne, Vera Pawlowa, Franziska Kinz, Arnold Korff, Andrews Engelmann, Valeska Gert, Edith Meinhard, Sybille Schmitz, Sig Arno, Kurt Gerron, Hedwig Schlichter, Hans Casparius, Jaro Fürth, Emmy Wyda, Marfa Kassatskaya, Sylvia Torf, Michael von Newlinsky
- Directors:
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst
- Producers:
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst
- Writers:
- Margarete Böhme, Rudolf Leonhardt
- Aka:
- Tagebuch Einer Verlorenen
- Studio:
- Eureka
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
- Collections:
- 100 Years of German Expressionism, Film History, A Brief History of Film..., The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to Federico Fellini, The Instant Expert's Guide to Howard Hawks, The Last Laugh: The Film That Changed Cinema
- Countries:
- Germany
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 24/11/2014
- Run Time:
- 113 minutes
- Languages:
- German LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- A New Video Essay, 'Naked on My Goat', by Filmmaker and Critic David Cairns
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Reviews (1) of Diary of a Lost Girl
brilliant film. - Diary of a Lost Girl review by sb
A brilliant film. the acting feels modern. louise Brooks and the rest of the cast carry the film at a great pace.
Like many silent movies this one is a revelation and a surprise to how good it is. I think too many people think silent movies are disconnected to real life and current topics and are something only to be mentioned in a museum and not to be enjoyed. This film is so imaginative, if it had sound and was shown today it would still make an impact, nothing in it is not relevant to today's viewers.
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