Film
Diary of a Lost Girl
- Director
- G.W. Pabst
- Certificate
- PG
- Running Time
- 106 mins
South West Silents presents this silent German masterpiece, for which director G.W. Pabst reunited with great bob-haired flapper-era star Louise Brooks just months after their better-known Pandora’s Box in 1929. This was to be their last collaboration and Pabst’s final silent film.
This time she’s cast as beautiful young Thymian Henning, who’s raped by her pharmacist father’s assistant (played by Fritz Rasp, who specialised in silent-era villainy) and slips into a downward sprial of degradation in a corupt society dominated by sex, money and hypocrisy, finding friendship only in an expensive brothel. Savaged by the censor on release, it’s now recognised as one of the key films of the silent era. This screening will be prefaced by a recorded audio intro by author and critic Pamela Hutchinson and features live music on piano by Jonny Best.
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