Diary of a Lost Girl

Original title: Tagebuch einer Verlorenen

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After falling pregnant by a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is ejected from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school.After falling pregnant by a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is ejected from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school.After falling pregnant by a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is ejected from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school.

Director
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Writers
- Margarete Böhme
- Rudolf Leonhardt
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7.8/10

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Director
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Writers
- Margarete Böhme
- Rudolf Leonhardt
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
The name "Thymian" is the German word for the herb thyme. Hence, it would be pronounced "ty-mi-en".

Goofs
In the English subtitles, the title of the film is "Dairy," not "Diary." Well, there is a cow-milking scene.

Quotes
Elder Count Osdorff: With a little more love, no one on this earth would ever be lost!

Alternate versions
Various heavily-cut versions have been around for years. Some "lost" footage was found and reinserted for the release of a complete (104 minutes) restored version in 1984.

Connections
Edited into Tanz mit dem Tod: Der Ufa-Star Sybille Schmitz (2000)

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Diary of a Lost Girl

Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)

*** (out of 4)

Fairly raw German silent from director G.W. Pabst. A young woman (Louise Brooks) is raped and is eventually thrown out of her house when she has a baby. From here on the girl goes to a reform school, becomes a whore but will she find redemption? I was somewhat letdown by the film since I felt it did have a few flaws. I thought the men characters were really one sided and the second half of the film drags somewhat but there are certainly more positives than negatives. Brooks is terrific in the lead role and does a great job at showing off the virginal younger girl and the eventual sluttish, if mature, older woman. There's a scene where she's working and her father notices her. Within the same scene we see Brooks "slut" slide melt away into that virginal girl we saw at the end of the film in some of the best acting I've seen. The mood and atmosphere is very strong at the start of the film and the morality ending actually works quite nicely.