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Diary Of A Lost Girl (1929)
Rating:
Starring: Louise Brooks, Edith Meinhard, Vera Pawlowa, Fritz Rasp, Josef Rovensky
Director: G.W. Pabst
Category: Avant Garde, Drama, Classics, Classics
Studio: Kino Video
Subtitles:
[None]
Length:
134 mins

 
 

 

Newly Remasterd with Additional Footage

Diary of a Lost Girl represents the second and final work of one of the cinema's most compelling collaborations: G.W. Pabst and Louise Brooks. Together with Pandora's Box (1928), Diary confirmed Pabst's artistry as one of the great directors of the silent period and established Brooks as an "actress of brilliance, a luminescent personality and a beauty unparalleled in screen history" (Kevin Brownlow, The Parade's Gone By).

Brooks, in a delicately restrained performance, plays the naive 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.

This Kino on Video version of Diary of a Lost Girl has been mastered from a new restoration of the film made by a group of European archives (see insert card) which adds approximately nine minutes of previously censored footage never seen in the United States.An evocative new score has been added by Joseph Turrin.