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With: Louise Brooks, Andre Roanne, Josef Rovensky, Fritz Rasp, Vera Pawlowa
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Written by: Rudolf Leonhardt, based on a novel by Margarete Bohme
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Directed by: G.W. Pabst
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MPAA Rating: NR
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Running Time: 116
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Date: 27/09/1929
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Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Pabst and Lulu
By Jeffrey M. Anderson Buy Diary of a Lost Girl on DVD. Kino Home Video has released an amazing transfer of Diary of a Lost Girl, the second of two films American actress Louise Brooks made for German director G.W. Pabst. Relegated to bit and supporting parts in America, Pabst spotted Brooks in a 1928 Howard Hawks film and offered to cast her in the lead role in Pandora's Box. She agreed, broke her Hollywood contract, and left for Germany. Through Pabst, she became one of the screen's most luminous, mysterious, potent and flat-out beautiful stars ever. Pandora's Box, with the Jack the Ripper as its villain, is perhaps better known and more highly celebrated, but Diary of a Lost Girl is easily its equal. Brooks stars as the naive pharmacist's daughter, a poor girl who is raped and gets pregnant, is shipped off to an evil reform school, then escapes and joins a brothel before inheriting her father's money. Pabst presents this material delicately but without shying away from it, and Brooks drives the whole thing from the center seat. DVD Details: The Kino disc was mastered from a beautiful German print containing footage not seen in the U.S. and includes a lovely new score by Joseph Turrin. It also contains a rare comedy short with an even rarer speaking role by Ms. Brooks.
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