DIARY OF A LOST GIRL
DAS TAGEBUCH EINER VERLORENEN
1929,
Kino Lorber,
112 min,
Germany,
Dir: G.W. Pabst
Seduced and abandoned by her father’s assistant, Louise Brooks descends into a lurid hell of reformatories and whorehouses. For a debauched party scene, Pabst insisted on realism – so Brooks complied by playing “the whole scene stewed on hot, sweet German champagne.”