Tagebuch einer Verlorenen
Directed by:
Georg Wilhelm PabstCinematography:
Sepp AllgeierCast:
Louise Brooks, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp, Arnold Korff, Valeska Gert, Sybille Schmitz, Sig Arno, Kurt Gerron, André Roanne, Andrews Engelmann, Franziska Kinz (more)VOD (1)
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Brooks, in a delicately restrained performance, plays the naïve 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. (official distributor synopsis)
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The Louise Brooks phenomenon is fatally linked to a pair of films by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, which she made with him during her brief stay in Germany in 1928-1929. The following year she cast a spell on Augusto Geninama and starred in the sound film Prix de beauté (Miss Europe) in France, but otherwise remained faithful to Hollywood. The magic of the famous Lulu was not easy to replicate in the same vein, so the character of a broken girl from the higher circles of Thymian was deliberately chosen for Louise. Thanks to this, she was then able to play out the internally rich world of her new character while undergoing a real transformation from naive to a fallen girl to a woman with a newly charged self-confidence. Personally, I like Diary of a Lost Girl much more than the more famous Pandora's Box, perhaps because of the immeasurable suffering in the eyes of Louise, who at first cannot believe reality. We can also enjoy Sigi Arno again and appreciate the great expressive acting of Josef Rovenský.
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