Louise Brooks in Joseph Pabst's “Diary of a Lost Girl”

Louise Brooks, in a delicately restrained and strikingly modern performance, plays the naïve daughter of a prosperous pharmacist who is disowned and forced to face a cruel and indifferent world. Pabst and Lousie Brooks is silent film melodrama at it’s best, a stunning look at Weimar decadence and Weimar hypocrisy.