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Diary of a Lost Girl (German: Tagebuch einer Verlorenen) is a 1929 German silent film directed by G. W. Pabst and starring American silent star Louise Brooks. 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' second and last film with Pabst, and like their prior collaboration, Pandora's Box, it is considered to be a classic by many film historians. It is based on the controversial and bestselling 1905 novel of the same name by Margarete Böhme. A previous screen adaptation of the novel, directed in 1918 by Richard Oswald, is currently classified as a lost film.

Diary of a Lost Girl
Directed by	G. W. Pabst
Screenplay by	Rudolf Leonhard[1]
Based on	Tagebuch einer Verlorenen by Margarete Böhme[1]
Produced by	G. W. Pabst[1]
Starring	Louise Brooks Fritz Rasp André Roanne Josef Rovenský Franziska Kinz
Cinematography	Sepp Allgeier[1]
Production company	Hom-Film AG Pabst-Film GmbH[1]
Release dates	12 September 1929 (1929-09-12) (Vienna) 15 October 1929 (1929-10-15) (Berlin)
Running time	110 minutes[1]
Country	Germany[1]

Plot

Thymian Henning (Louise Brooks), the innocent, naive daughter of pharmacist Robert Henning (Josef Rovenský), is puzzled when their housekeeper, Elisabeth (Sybille Schmitz), leaves suddenly on the day of Thymian's confirmation. It turns out that her father has got Elisabeth pregnant. Elisabeth's body is brought to the pharmacy later that day, an apparent suicide by drowning, upsetting Thymian.

Thymian's father's assistant Meinert (Fritz Rasp), promises to explain it all to her late that night, but instead rapes her while she is unconscious and she also becomes pregnant.[2] Though Thymian refuses to name the illegitimate baby's father, the relatives find out from her diary, and decide that the best solution is for her to marry Meinert. When she refuses because she does not love him, they give the baby to a midwife and send her to a strict reformatory for wayward girls run by a tyrannical woman (Valeska Gert) and her tall, bald assistant (Andrews Engelmann).

Meanwhile, Thymian's friend, Count Osdorff (André Roanne), is cast off and left penniless by his rich uncle, also Count Osdorff (Arnold Korff), after he proves unsuccessful at every school and trade. Thymian begs her friend to persuade her father to take her back, but Thymian's father has married his new housekeeper, Meta (Franziska Kinz), and Meta wants no rivals for Robert's affection. Rebelling against the reformatory's rigid discipline, Thymian and her friend Erika (Edith Meinhard) escape with Osdorff's help. When Thymian goes to see her baby, she is told the child has just died. After despondently wandering the streets, she re-unites with Erika, who is working in a small, upper-class brothel. With no skills, Thymian also becomes a prostitute.

By chance, Thymian encounters her father, Meta, and Meinert in a nightclub. Her father is shocked when he realizes what she has become, and Meta and Meinert prevent them from speaking by quickly ushering Robert out of the nightclub. Three years later, her father dies. With the expectation of inheriting a large amount of money, Thymian decides to start a new life. Her friends at the brothel suggest she obtain a new identity by marrying Osdorff. After thinking about it, he agrees. At the lawyer's office, Meinert buys Thymian's interest in the pharmacy, making her rich. However, when she learns that Meinert is throwing Meta and her two children out on the street, Thymian gives Meta the money so that her young half-sister will not suffer her fate.

Osdorff, who had been counting on the money to rebuild a life for himself too, throws himself out the window to his death when she tells him what she has done. The uncle, grief-stricken, decides to make amends by taking care of Thymian. He introduces her to his cousin as his niece, Countess Osdorff. In a strange twist of fate, Thymian is invited to become a director of the same reformatory where she herself was once held. When Erika, her old friend, is brought before the directors as an "especially difficult case", Thymian denounces the school and its "blessings" and takes Erika out of the room. Count Osdorff follows the two women; but before leaving he pauses, turns back toward his startled cousin, and declares, "A little more love and no-one would be lost in this world!"

Cast

Release

Diary of a Lost Girl premiered in Vienna, Austria on 12 September 1929.[1] It had its German premiere in Berlin on 15 October 1929.[1]

See also

• List of films made in Weimar Germany

References

Bibliography

• Campbell, Russell (2006). Marked Women: Prostitutes and Prostitution in the Cinema. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-21253-7.

External links

• Diary of a Lost Girl at IMDb
• Diary of a Lost Girl at AllMovie
• Diary of a Lost Girl filmography page at Louise Brooks Society

На других языках

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[de] Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (1929)

Tagebuch einer Verlorenen ist ein deutsches Filmdrama von Georg Wilhelm Pabst aus dem Jahr 1929. Das Drehbuch dieses Stummfilms beruht auf dem gleichnamigen Roman von Margarete Böhme aus dem Jahr 1905.

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- [en] Diary of a Lost Girl

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[es] Diary of a Lost Girl

 Diary of a Lost Girl (Diario de una perdida) ( en alemán, Tagebuch einer Verlorenen; y en España titulada Tres páginas de un diario) es una película muda alemana de 1929 dirigida por G. W. Pabst y protagonizada por la estrella estadounidense Louise Brooks. Fue rodada en blanco y negro y las varias versiones de la película, según lo eliminado por la censura en cada país, van de los 79 a los 116 minutos de duración. Esta fue la segunda y última colaboración de Brooks con Pabst, y como su colaboración previa, La caja de Pandora, es considerada un clásico por muchos historiadores cinematográficos. Se basa en la polémica pero muy popular en la época novela homónima de 1905 de Margarete Böhme. Una adaptación cinematográfica anterior de la novela, dirigida en 1918 por Richard Oswald, está actualmente clasificada como película perdida.

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