Diary of a Lost Girl

"German filmmaker G.W. Pabst and Hollywood expatriate Louise Brooks re-team after the success of Pandora's Box for the silent film Diary of a Lost Girl. On the day of her confirmation, innocent young Thymiane Henning (Brooks) is given a lockable diary as a present. She's distraught because the housekeeper Elisabeth (Sibylle Schmitz) is leaving under curious circumstances and turns up presumably dead. Her duties are taken over by the conniving Meta (Franziska Kinz), who accepts the advances of Thymiane's father (Josef Ravensky). Trying to understand Elizabeth's fate, Thymiane agrees to meet her father's assistant, Meinert (Fritz Rasp). She passes out, he carries her up to her room, and by the next scene she has borne a child. Meta snoops in her diary and finds out it was Meinert's baby, so she suggests they get married. Thymiane refuses, so they throw her in a creepy reformatory for fallen women and leave her baby with a midwife. While in the reformatory, she meets Erika (Edith Meinhard), with whom she eventually escapes. They become nominal prostitutes in a brothel and befriend the good-time-guy Count Osdorff (Andr? Roanne). After her father dies, Thymiane returns to collect her inheritance, only to be cheated once again by Meinert. At the funeral she gets together with a rich older man, leading to her life as a respectable lady. The conclusion finds her returning to the reformatory to save Erika from a league of wealthy women."