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Diary Of A Lost Girl [1929]
starring: Louise Brooks, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp, André Roanne, Vera Pawlowa
directed by: Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Used Price: £3.13

Audience Rating: Parental Guidance
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5023965115324
Format: Black & White, PAL
Label: Tartan Video
Manufacturer: Tartan Video
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Tartan Video
Release Date: February 07, 1994
Running Time: 74 minutes
Studio: Tartan Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1929
Sales Rank: 6949

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Quite complex, well presented, you will be absorbed
Black and white silent movie with English subtitles. Sound track relevant to the story. Original title "Tagebuch einer Verlorenen"

Thymiane (Louise Brooks) not aware of the relationship her father had with another of his housekeepers Elisabeth (Sybille Schmitz); she is confused as to why the housekeeper had to leave and ultimately why the housekeeper committed suicide. The pharmacist Meinert (Fritz Rasp) downstairs is more than willing to show her what happens when one gets too friendly and does so when Thymiane faints.

This results in an offspring. The father pays the pharmacist's debt in exchange for making an honest woman of Thymiane. However she reneges and holds out for love; naturally this is unacceptable so ... Read More:

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- A melodrama with magic
This release of the second collaboration between actress Louise Brooks and master film maker GW Pabst allows modern viewers to understand why this film is still written about and discussed eighty years after production.

Pabst takes a simple story of a girl cast out from her family, due to an unwanted pregnancy, and turns it into a study of the hypocrisy of 'respectable' society. Moved from her home to a reformatory and then escaping into a life on the streets, Pabst shows a character looking for love and support who time and again is betrayed. Once again he is able to coax a remarkable performance out of Brooks and make good use of an eye catching supporting cast. Sometimes this veers towards the grotesque but this fits in well ... Read More:

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- Louise Brooks in a Mourning Veil. Who could resist?
The effervescent glamour of Louise Brooks, beaming her wondrously pale vapours from the television screen, never ceases to charm me to excess, whatever her attire. Here, in Pabst's last silent film, the decline of Thymiane (daughter of a wealthy Pharmacist) faces her gradual descent from her bourgeois life at the birth of her illegitimate child.

From Confirmation day petticoats to Brothel chic slip dresses, The Diary of a Lost Girl offers a splendorous example of late 1920's German Film and with lure in those who are tempted by the 1920's aesthetic.

This is a purely nostalgic experience bearing a timeless narrative and although I know many who could not endure the silence for too long, their attention faltering between ... Read More:

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- The allure of Louise Brooks in a mourning veil?
The effervescent glamour of Louise Brooks, beaming her wondrously palevapours from the television screen, never ceases to charm me to excess,whatever her attire. Here, in Pabst's last silent film, the decline ofThymiane (daughter of a wealthy Pharmacist) faces her gradual descent frombourgeois life at the birth of her illegitimate child. From Confirmationday petticoats to brothel chic, The Diary of a Lost Girl, offers asplendorous example of late 1920's German Film making.

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