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Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
An elegant narrative of moral musical chairs, Pabst's last silent film not only plays on who holds what kind of legitimate place in society, but is also a starkly direct view of inter-war Germany. Feasting the camera on Brooks' radiant beauty, Pabst follows the adventures of innocence led astray in the shape of Thymian, a pharmacist's daughter. Her progress from apple of her father's eye, through sexual lapse and approved school, to darling of an expensive brothel and finally to dowager countess, gives Pabst the opportunity to measure the Germany of the Weimar republic against Brooks' embodiment of a vitality so exuberant that it equals innocence. However damning, though, Pabst's indictment of the bourgeoisie as torn between powerless compassion, greed and scandal-lust, his alternatives - the brothel as the one place of true friendship, or the aristocratic father-figure who puts everything right in the end - smack very much of a cop-out, allowing him to both revel in decadence and enjoy the moral superiority of denouncing it.Author: RB
Cast & crew
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Producer: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Cast: Louise Brooks, Edith Meinhardt, Vera Pawlowa, Josef Rovensky, Fritz Rasp, André Roanne, Arnold Korff full cast
Duration: 9 mins
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