The second and final collaboration of actress Louise Brooks and director G.W. Pabst (Pandoras Box), DIARY OF A LOST GIRL is a provocative adaptation of Margarethe Böhmes notorious novel, in which the naive daughter of a middle class pharmacist is seduced by her fathers assistant, only to be disowned and sent to a repressive home for wayward girls. She escapes, searches for her child, and ends up in a high-class brothel, only to turn the tables on the society which had abused her. Its another
The second and final collaboration of actress Louise Brooks and director G.W. Pabst (Pandoras Box), DIARY OF A LOST GIRL is a provocative adaptation of Margarethe Böhmes notorious novel, in which the naive daughter of a middle class pharmacist is seduced by her fathers assistant, only to be disowned and sent to a repressive home for wayward girls. She escapes, searches for her child, and ends up in a high-class brothel, only to turn the tables on the society which had abused her. Its another tour-de-force performance by Brooks, whom silent film historian Kevin Brownlow calls an actress of brilliance, a luminescent personality and a beauty unparalleled in screen history. Special
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