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May 17, 2024 · Louise Brooks portrays the protagonist, Thymiane. Brooks’ captivating performance as the lost girl garnered critical acclaim and solidified her status as a silent film icon. The movie explores themes of sexuality, exploitation, and societal norms.
Mar 22, 2012 · In an ending of unrestrained irony, Osrorff's wealthy uncle marries Thymian, who now becomes a member of Society for the Rescue of Endangered Female Youth. The Society pays a visit on the whorehouse, where Thymian attempts to play the reformer role expected of her, but finally rises up in wrath.
Brooks as Thymian in the brothel scene. Thymian Henning, the innocent, naive daughter of pharmacist Robert Henning, is puzzled when their housekeeper, Elisabeth, leaves suddenly on the day of Thymian's confirmation. It turns out that her father has made Elisabeth pregnant.
Diary of a Lost Girl: Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. With Louise Brooks, Fritz Rasp, Edith Meinhard, Vera Pawlowa. 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.
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- Drama
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst
- 1930
In the film, Pabst used the main character Thymian, who opts for alienation rather than hypocritical conformity, as a vehicle to attack the self-righteous values of the German middle class. Like Pandora’s Box , Diary of a Lost Girl was ruthlessly attacked by the press and censors, ultimately requiring Pabst to film an alternate ending for ...
Mar 28, 2016 · In Diary of a Lost Girl, Brooks stars as Thymian Henning, the teenage daughter of a pharmacy owner who is not the most understanding of men. Selfish and pompous, Henning is the first in a long line of male authority figures who subjugate Thymian and the other female characters, oppressing them in a series of almost Dickensian episodes.
Dec 19, 2014 · December 19, 2014. Diary of a Lost Girl begins in the midst of tragedy. As Thymian (Louise Brooks) awaits her confirmation, eager for all the joys of adulthood, her family’s housekeeper is suddenly thrust out. It seems she and Thymian’s father had been sleeping together, and a pregnancy resulted.
