Tagebuch einer Verlorenen

Tagebuch einer Verlorenen

Deutschland 1929, Spielfilm

Synopsis

Diary of a Lost Girl

The young Thymian, herself still a child, is seduced by her father′s assistant. After the birth of her illegitimate baby, her family puts her into a home. There she suffers with her fellow inmates under the control of a sadistical couple. Helped by the young poor Earl Osdorff she runs away and ends up in an urban brothel. She begins to like it there and becomes the focus of interest in a different and exciting world.

To help a customer of the brothel financially, Thymian is auctioned off at a nightclub. Her father witnesses this personally and dies shortly thereafter. Meinert, her seducer, buys her father′s pharmacy to pay her off. Now the Earl becomes interested in Thymian due to her heir to the estate. He marries her but on hearing the news that Thymian donated all the money to her stepmother′s children, he commits suicide.

Now that she has become the Countess she meets the rich uncle of her deceased husband who takes care of her. Together with him and other ladies of the high society Thymian visits the same home, where she reveals that she herself was a former inmate and furthermore the hypocrisy of the couple in charge.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

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Credits

Director:G. W. Pabst
Screenplay:Rudolf Leonhard
Director of photography:Sepp Allgeier
Music:Otto Stenzeel (Bei der Uraufführung)
  
Cast: 
Louise BrooksThymian Henning
Fritz RaspProvisor Meinert
Edith MeinhardErika
Vera PawlowaTante Frida
Josef RovenskýApotheker Henning
André RoanneJunger Graf Osdorff
Arnold KorffAlter Graf Osdorff
Andrews EngelmannLeiter der Erziehungsanstalt
Valeska GertLeiterin der Erziehungsanstalt
Franziska KinzMeta
Siegfried ArnoBordellgast
Kurt GerronDr. Vitalis
Sybille SchmitzElisabeth
Hans G. CaspariusWurstmaxe
Jaro FürthNotar Schutz
Jean Renoir1. Bargast
Pierre Braunberger2. Bargast
Martha von Kossatzky
Sylvia Torff
M. Kassaskaja
Speedy Schlichter
Emmy Wyda
Michael von Newlinski
  
Production company:Pabst-Film GmbH (Berlin)
Producer:G. W. Pabst

All Credits

Director:G. W. Pabst
Assistant director:Mark Sorkin, Paul Falkenberg
Screenplay:Rudolf Leonhard
based on:Margarethe Böhme (Roman)
Director of photography:Sepp Allgeier
Production design:Ernö Metzner, Emil Hasler
Music:Otto Stenzeel (Bei der Uraufführung)
  
Cast: 
Louise BrooksThymian Henning
Fritz RaspProvisor Meinert
Edith MeinhardErika
Vera PawlowaTante Frida
Josef RovenskýApotheker Henning
André RoanneJunger Graf Osdorff
Arnold KorffAlter Graf Osdorff
Andrews EngelmannLeiter der Erziehungsanstalt
Valeska GertLeiterin der Erziehungsanstalt
Franziska KinzMeta
Siegfried ArnoBordellgast
Kurt GerronDr. Vitalis
Sybille SchmitzElisabeth
Hans G. CaspariusWurstmaxe
Jaro FürthNotar Schutz
Jean Renoir1. Bargast
Pierre Braunberger2. Bargast
Martha von Kossatzky
Sylvia Torff
M. Kassaskaja
Speedy Schlichter
Emmy Wyda
Michael von Newlinski
  
Production company:Pabst-Film GmbH (Berlin)
Producer:G. W. Pabst
Unit production manager:Viktor Skutetzky
Location manager:Heinz Landsmann
Shoot:06.1929-08.1929: Swinemünde und Umgebung
Original distributor:Favorit-Film GmbH (Berlin), Nord Film GmbH (Hamburg), Siegel-Monopol-Film, Johannes Siegel (Dresden), Rheinische Film GmbH (Köln), Union-Film-Co. mbH (München)
Format:35mm
Picture/Sound:s/w, stumm
Rating:Prüfung: 09.12.1929
Screening:Uraufführung (AT): 27.09.1929, Wien, 12 Kinos;
Erstaufführung (DE): 15.10.1929, Berlin, U.T. Kurfürstendamm;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 24.07.1973, ZDF

Titles

Originaltitel (DE) Tagebuch einer Verlorenen

Versions

Original

Format:35mm
Picture/Sound:s/w, stumm
Rating:Prüfung: 09.12.1929
Screening:Uraufführung (AT): 27.09.1929, Wien, 12 Kinos;
Erstaufführung (DE): 15.10.1929, Berlin, U.T. Kurfürstendamm;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 24.07.1973, ZDF
 

Prüffassung

Length:8 Akte, 2864 m
Rating:Zensur (DE): 24.09.1929, B.23533, Jugendverbot
 
Length:8 Akte, 3132 m
Rating:Zensur (DE): 05.12.1929, O.00596, Verbot
 
Length:2967 m
 
Length:7 Akte, 2008 m
Rating:Zensur (DE): 06.01.1930, B.24673, Jugendverbot
 
Length:2614 m, 96 min bei 24 b/s
Rating:FSK-Prüfung (DE): 08.02.1995, 72699, ohne Altersbeschränkung / feiertagsfrei