Stummfilm mit Livemusik: "Tagebuch einer Verlorenen"

On the day of her confirmation party, Thyme is raped and impregnated by her father's assistant, a pharmacist. After the birth of her child, she is sent to a home where a cruel and sadistic regime reigns. With the help of the penniless Count Osdorff, a playboy, she manages to escape and ends up in a brothel in the big city. She quickly settles into this new environment - but then her father dies. Having become rich from her inheritance, she enters the circles of the higher nobility...

Thanks to Georg Wilhelm Pabst's staging skills, this film adaptation of a colportage-like bestseller becomes a fascinating film classic: impressively photographed, it tells of social abysses and social double standards. Louise Brooks, seen for the second time under Pabst's direction after THE BOOKS OF PANDORA from the same year, once again reveals herself to be one of the most iconic actresses in film history, who falls very low and refuses to be defeated.

A film from the collection of the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation (www.murnau-stiftung.de) in Wiesbaden.

Silent film with live music by Sidney Corbett (electric guitar) and Hubertus Dreyer (electronics)

Introduction by Dr. Peter Bär, Cinema Quadrat.