1929 · drama · silent · social
Diary of a Lost Girl
Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst1h 53m1929
Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.
Our read: Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · silent · social entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, steady, measured drama / silent, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
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