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Diary of a Lost Girl represents the second and final work of one of the cinema's most compelling collaborations: G.W. Pabst and Louise Brooks. Together with Pandora's Box (1928), Diary confirmed Pabst's artistry as one of the great directors of the silent period and established Brooks as an "actress of brilliance, a luminescent personality and a beauty unparalleled in screen history" (Kevin Brownlow, The Parade's Gone By). Brooks, in a delicately restrained performance, plays the naive daughter of a prosperous pharmacist. Shy and faunlike, the wide-eyed innocent is made pregnant by her father's young assistant. To preserve family honor, she is sent to a repressive reform school from which she eventually escapes. Penniless and homeless, she is directed to a brothel where she becomes liberated and lives for the moment with radiant physical abandon.
Original Release
09/27/1929
US Release
09/12/1930
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Louise Brooks | Thymian Henning |
Fritz Rasp | Meinert / Provisor Meinert |
Edith Meinhard | Erika |
Vera Pawlowa | Aunt Frieda / Aunt Frida / Tante Frieda |
Josef Rovenský | Karl Friedrich Henning / Apotheker Robert Henning |
André Roanne | Count Nicolas Osdorff / Junger Graf Nicolas Osdorff / Younger Count Osdorff |
Arnold Korff | Elder Count Osdorff / Alter Graf Osdorff / Older Count Osdorff |
Andrews Engelmann | The Reformatory's Dean / Leiter der Erziehungsansalt |
Valeska Gert | The Reformatory Dean's Wife / Leiterin der Erziehungsansalt |
Franziska Kinz | Meta / Meta Koch Henning |
Directors
Writers
Margarete Böhme, Rudolf Leonhardt
Cast
Name | Character |
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Louise Brooks | Thymian Henning |
Fritz Rasp | Meinert / Provisor Meinert |
Edith Meinhard | Erika |
Vera Pawlowa | Aunt Frieda / Aunt Frida / Tante Frieda |
Josef Rovenský | Karl Friedrich Henning / Apotheker Robert Henning |
André Roanne | Count Nicolas Osdorff / Junger Graf Nicolas Osdorff / Younger Count Osdorff |
Arnold Korff | Elder Count Osdorff / Alter Graf Osdorff / Older Count Osdorff |
Andrews Engelmann | The Reformatory's Dean / Leiter der Erziehungsansalt |
Valeska Gert | The Reformatory Dean's Wife / Leiterin der Erziehungsansalt |
Franziska Kinz | Meta / Meta Koch Henning |
Sig Arno | Guest / Brothel Visitor / Bordellgast |
Kurt Gerron | Dr. Vitalis |
Sybille Schmitz | Elisabeth |
Hans Casparius | Wurstmaxe |
Jaro Fürth | Notary / Notar Schutz |
Jean Renoir | Bargast |
Pierre Braunberger | Bargast |
Martha von Konssatzki | (as M. Kasazkaya) |
Sylvia Torf | |
Hedy Krilla | (as Hedwig Schlichter) |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Producer |