Diary of a lost girl

Diary of a Lost Girl (Tagebuch einer Verlorenen) is a 1929 silent film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst and starring the iconic Louise Brooks. The film was based on the controversial and bestselling novel of the same name by Margarete Böhme, from 1905. And remember, 1929 is precisely the same year when Gereon Rath and Charlotte Ritter chase bad guys in the TV-series Babylon Berlin.

Louise Brooks plays the innocent daughter of a pharmacist who, after falling pregnant, is thrown from her home and sent to a scrict girls' reform school. After escaping, the girl, with nowhere to go, is forced to survive by working in a brothel.

The movie is an example of the Pabst's audacity, addressing those issues at a time where few dared to contradict moral codes.

The film features also two other stars : Valeska Gert and Kurt Gerron.

Kurt Gerron

Valeska Gert