Kino Lorber will release on Blu-ray Georg Wilhelm Pabst's classic silent film
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), starring Louise Brooks, Josef Rovenský, and Fritz Rasp. The release will be available for purchase on October 20.
Diary of a Lost Girl represents the second and final work of one of the cinema's most compelling collaborations: G.W. Pabst and Louise Brooks. Together with Pandora's Box (1928), Diary confirmed Pabst's artistry as one of the great directors of the silent period and established Brooks as an "actress of brilliance, a luminescent personality and a beauty unparalleled in screen history" (Kevin Brownlow, The Parade's Gone By).
Brooks, in a delicately restrained performance, plays the naive daughter of a prosperous pharmacist. Shy and faunlike, the wide-eyed innocent is made pregnant by her father's young assistant. To preserve family honor, she is sent to a repressive reform school from which she eventually escapes. Penniless and homeless, she is directed to a brothel where she becomes liberated and lives for the moment with radiant physical abandon.
Special Features:
- Mastered in HD from archival 35mm elements, and digitally restored
- Audio commentary by Thomas Gladysz, Director, Louise Brooks Society
- Windy Riley Goes Hollywood, short film featuring Louise Brooks (1930, 18 Min.)