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sabotai · 03-06-2010, 10:15 PM

Tagenbuch einer Verlorenen (1929)
English Title: Diary of a Lost Girl

Directed by: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Starring: Louise Brooks, Fritz Rasp, André Roanne
Length: 104 min.
Genre: Drama

Plot Summery from Wikipedia

Louise Brooks plays Thymian Henning, the innocent and naive daughter of pharmacist Robert Henning (Josef Rovenský). Thymian is seduced by her father's assistant Meinert (Fritz Rasp) and gives birth to an illegitimate child. Meinert is revealed to be the father by an entry in Thymian's diary, and when she refuses to marry him she is forced to leave the baby with a midwife and sent to a strict reform school for wayward girls.

Rebelling against the school's rigid discipline, Thymian and her friend Erika (Edith Meinhard) escape with the help of her father's old friend, Count Osdorff (André Roanne), but they separate. Thymian's relief is short-lived—she discovers that her baby is dead—and after despondently wandering the streets, she re-unites with Erika, who is working in a brothel.

Thymian also becomes a prostitute, but profits from her misfortune by gaining control of her own life. When her father dies, she inherits a large amount of money, after gaining "respectability" by marrying Osdorff, but gives it all to her young half-sister who has been disinherited. Osdorff, who had been counting on the money because he himself had been disinherited by his uncle (Arnold Korff), kills himself. The uncle, grief-stricken, makes Thymian his heir. In a strange twist of fate, she becomes a director of the reform school where she herself was once held. When her old friend is brought in as an "especially difficult case" who "constantly turns away from the blessings of our home", Thymian denounces the school and its "blessings". Uncle Osdorff has the last word: "A little more love and no-one would be lost in this world."

Review

The same director-lead actress duo from Pandora's Box. I thought this was a better movie that their previous one. Another movie from the 1920s that really shows how unwed mothers were shunned by society, and even made to go into reform "schools". It's interesting how much culture and society has moved in less than 100 years. Today, children born out of wedlock is no big deal. Back then, it was the most scandalous thing a woman could do (according to the movies, anyway.

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My Rating: 7/10
IMDB User Rating: 8.0 (1,148 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes: 100% Fresh (8.6 - 5 Reviews)

03-06-2010, 10:15 PM	#198
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	Tagenbuch einer Verlorenen (1929) English Title: Diary of a Lost Girl Directed by: Georg Wilhelm Pabst Starring: Louise Brooks, Fritz Rasp, André Roanne Length: 104 min. Genre: Drama Plot Summery from Wikipedia Louise Brooks plays Thymian Henning, the innocent and naive daughter of pharmacist Robert Henning (Josef Rovenský). Thymian is seduced by her father's assistant Meinert (Fritz Rasp) and gives birth to an illegitimate child. Meinert is revealed to be the father by an entry in Thymian's diary, and when she refuses to marry him she is forced to leave the baby with a midwife and sent to a strict reform school for wayward girls. Rebelling against the school's rigid discipline, Thymian and her friend Erika (Edith Meinhard) escape with the help of her father's old friend, Count Osdorff (André Roanne), but they separate. Thymian's relief is short-lived—she discovers that her baby is dead—and after despondently wandering the streets, she re-unites with Erika, who is working in a brothel. Thymian also becomes a prostitute, but profits from her misfortune by gaining control of her own life. When her father dies, she inherits a large amount of money, after gaining "respectability" by marrying Osdorff, but gives it all to her young half-sister who has been disinherited. Osdorff, who had been counting on the money because he himself had been disinherited by his uncle (Arnold Korff), kills himself. The uncle, grief-stricken, makes Thymian his heir. In a strange twist of fate, she becomes a director of the reform school where she herself was once held. When her old friend is brought in as an "especially difficult case" who "constantly turns away from the blessings of our home", Thymian denounces the school and its "blessings". Uncle Osdorff has the last word: "A little more love and no-one would be lost in this world." Review The same director-lead actress duo from Pandora's Box. I thought this was a better movie that their previous one. Another movie from the 1920s that really shows how unwed mothers were shunned by society, and even made to go into reform "schools". It's interesting how much culture and society has moved in less than 100 years. Today, children born out of wedlock is no big deal. Back then, it was the most scandalous thing a woman could do (according to the movies, anyway. ). My Rating: 7/10 IMDB User Rating: 8.0 (1,148 votes) Rotten Tomatoes: 100% Fresh (8.6 - 5 Reviews)