Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)

Original title

Tagebuch einer Verlorenen

Directed by

Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

Weimar Republic, Germany

Runtime

1h 49m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 122 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman from a proper family is seduced and falls into a life of scandal and hardship. She is sent to a strict reformatory before eventually finding work in a brothel. The story follows her struggle to survive and find meaning in a world that has cast her out.

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What happens

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. The film was shot in black and white, and diverse versions of the film ranged from 79 minutes to 116 minutes in length. This was Brooks' second and last film with Pabst, and like their previous collaboration, Pandora's Box, many film historians consider it to be a classic. It is based on the controversial and bestselling 1905 novel of the same name by Margarete Böhme. The novel had been previously adapted by Richard Oswald as Diary of a Lost Woman. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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