1 00:00:42,850 --> 00:00:46,780 DIARY OF A LOST GIRL 2 00:00:47,450 --> 00:00:50,539 after the novel by Margarete Böhme 3 00:00:51,090 --> 00:00:52,840 Script: Rudolf Leonhardt 4 00:00:53,210 --> 00:00:55,740 Direction: G. W. Pabst 5 00:02:22,250 --> 00:02:26,750 So you've had your way with this housekeeper too! 6 00:02:57,449 --> 00:03:01,560 Why is Elisabeth leaving. - today of all days? 7 00:04:05,250 --> 00:04:08,409 PHARMACY 8 00:04:11,650 --> 00:04:15,439 Oh why does Elisabeth have to go away? 9 00:04:35,170 --> 00:04:39,589 l'll tell you about it this evening - little Thymian! 10 00:04:44,689 --> 00:04:46,899 - big Thymian! 11 00:05:52,370 --> 00:05:55,110 My confirmation gift! 12 00:07:02,449 --> 00:07:05,290 But... l'm no countess! 13 00:07:07,730 --> 00:07:11,910 That doesn't matter - l'M Count Osdorff! 14 00:07:30,569 --> 00:07:32,360 This evening at half-past 10 in the pharmacy 15 00:08:40,409 --> 00:08:44,549 This is Meta, my new housekeeper! 16 00:11:38,129 --> 00:11:40,940 Good night, Herr Pharmacist! 17 00:13:48,850 --> 00:13:51,169 l'm all alone! 18 00:14:03,570 --> 00:14:06,340 l want to be here for you! 19 00:14:13,250 --> 00:14:17,389 l'll tell you what happened with Elisabeth! 20 00:14:24,769 --> 00:14:27,580 - l'll tell you everything! 21 00:16:24,529 --> 00:16:28,710 And she doesn't want to say who the father is. 22 00:17:33,009 --> 00:17:35,430 You have to marry her. 23 00:17:40,130 --> 00:17:45,960 Yes, if the pharmacy weren't so heavily mortgaged - ! 24 00:17:52,890 --> 00:17:57,069 Of course, Thymian must be asked, too. 25 00:18:16,730 --> 00:18:20,589 l can't marry him: l don't even love him - ! 26 00:18:35,730 --> 00:18:39,380 Don't lay a finger on the innocent child, - you - ! 27 00:18:55,769 --> 00:18:59,250 The family - 28 00:19:02,210 --> 00:19:04,069 - has decided - 29 00:20:21,130 --> 00:20:23,940 Ww. Bolke: Midwife 30 00:21:03,329 --> 00:21:05,430 RULES OF ATTENDANCE:... Forbidden... 31 00:26:40,369 --> 00:26:41,769 Dear Father, 32 00:26:58,970 --> 00:27:02,380 Dear Osdorff, l am so unhappy. 33 00:27:36,930 --> 00:27:41,000 Your nephew still doesn't want to obey, Herr Count. 34 00:29:22,490 --> 00:29:26,180 l've tried everything with you, every school and every trade: 35 00:29:26,809 --> 00:29:29,690 you've failed at all of them! 36 00:29:33,410 --> 00:29:37,549 Now l've had enough! See how far you get on your own. 37 00:29:52,849 --> 00:29:58,289 In the reformatory one lived according to the house-rules. 38 00:32:34,490 --> 00:32:38,210 And so the housekeeper became the lady of the house. 39 00:33:12,329 --> 00:33:14,859 Thymian's Room 40 00:33:30,970 --> 00:33:33,849 NURSERY 41 00:34:28,969 --> 00:34:33,150 Count Osdorff resolved to help Thymian. 42 00:34:51,210 --> 00:34:53,840 Dear Osdorff: l am so unhappy. 43 00:34:54,329 --> 00:34:59,840 What did l actually do that l am treated so strictly and cruelly? 44 00:35:08,489 --> 00:35:11,369 ...because Meta has father wrapped around her finger. 45 00:35:11,889 --> 00:35:15,369 l beg you to go to him. Perhaps then l'll be able to go home again. 46 00:35:15,969 --> 00:35:18,639 Yours, Thymian 47 00:35:28,929 --> 00:35:33,110 -...l'm afraid to write to Father: Meta is so mean... - 48 00:35:43,530 --> 00:35:47,710 l heard that your uncle has thrown you out - 49 00:35:53,849 --> 00:35:56,969 - go now to Thymian. You belong together: 50 00:35:57,530 --> 00:36:01,010 the outcast and the lost-girl. 51 00:36:51,769 --> 00:36:55,880 Go to her - Tell her something nice - ! 52 00:37:59,449 --> 00:38:02,960 Here the pharmacy won't be auctioned off to you just yet. 53 00:38:03,570 --> 00:38:05,780 now that l possess the mortgages. 54 00:38:15,449 --> 00:38:18,539 Even the strictest discipline cannot repress 55 00:38:19,090 --> 00:38:21,760 the girls' desire to look pretty. 56 00:39:53,210 --> 00:39:56,900 PUNISH ERIKA 57 00:40:21,969 --> 00:40:23,619 Count Nikolaus Osdorff 58 00:40:50,610 --> 00:40:55,559 The Count claims to come on behalf of your father. 59 00:41:39,849 --> 00:41:42,829 No-one at home wants to know anything more about you: 60 00:41:43,369 --> 00:41:46,110 Meta has married your father. 61 00:42:26,050 --> 00:42:31,320 Steal the key, and l'll help you further. 62 00:42:32,170 --> 00:42:35,329 l'll wait for you tonight in front of your house! 63 00:47:48,050 --> 00:47:51,840 l know where we can stay. 64 00:47:55,409 --> 00:47:58,739 No: l want to go to my child. 65 00:48:03,690 --> 00:48:07,519 l'll write down for you where l can be found. 66 00:48:09,289 --> 00:48:13,119 Bar ''FOR TWO ANGELS'' Dessauer Str. 17 67 00:49:17,650 --> 00:49:20,949 I'd like to see my child, 68 00:49:25,809 --> 00:49:29,139 Little Erika Henning - 69 00:49:34,010 --> 00:49:37,309 She happens to be dead - 70 00:49:45,289 --> 00:49:48,619 He just took her away. 71 00:50:53,409 --> 00:50:57,239 Where you headed, Iuv? 72 00:51:10,449 --> 00:51:12,519 - to Erika! 73 00:51:32,090 --> 00:51:36,659 Erika and Count Osdorff are received with open arms 74 00:51:37,409 --> 00:51:41,380 by the proprietress of the establishment. 75 01:02:31,409 --> 01:02:34,150 And what's more, he leaves his regards! 76 01:03:00,489 --> 01:03:03,650 Oh, be reasonable, little one: 77 01:03:04,210 --> 01:03:07,860 you don't even have a shirt on your back! 78 01:03:55,570 --> 01:03:59,889 If your friend helps you, you'll be outta this whole mess! 79 01:04:03,130 --> 01:04:07,480 Me?! l'm penniless, and my uncle won't give me anything more! 80 01:04:16,769 --> 01:04:19,019 l want to go to work! 81 01:04:24,210 --> 01:04:27,469 What are you able to do, my poor little thing? 82 01:05:01,130 --> 01:05:07,489 Be so kind as to place this advert in the paper. 83 01:05:41,130 --> 01:05:46,150 Dance Lessons. Thymian Henning Dessauer Str. 17 84 01:06:07,809 --> 01:06:12,449 Dance Lessons by the beautiful Thymian Henning 85 01:11:40,130 --> 01:11:43,989 Little child, how did you end up here...? 86 01:11:57,930 --> 01:12:01,760 ...l tell you, you'll bitterly regret this! 87 01:12:18,449 --> 01:12:21,539 That's Dr. Vitalis - he always wants to save us - 88 01:12:22,090 --> 01:12:24,760 - but in the end he joins us. 89 01:13:27,970 --> 01:13:31,869 You look like you're at a funeral, dear friend: 90 01:13:32,529 --> 01:13:35,619 try and be a li'l happy! 91 01:13:39,810 --> 01:13:43,109 Today's your birthday? 92 01:14:00,890 --> 01:14:05,029 l know how l'll help: we'll do a lottery for you. 93 01:14:59,369 --> 01:15:03,199 Once a year the pharmacist takes his wife out on the town. 94 01:15:15,010 --> 01:15:18,729 So here you have the seamy side of the big city. 95 01:15:50,449 --> 01:15:54,279 And what can you win with the lot? 96 01:18:47,090 --> 01:18:50,949 Yes, Thymian, now you are a lost-girl - 97 01:19:03,050 --> 01:19:05,579 - just as we're all lost! 98 01:19:06,689 --> 01:19:10,239 Three years have passed since the painful meeting 99 01:19:10,850 --> 01:19:13,380 between father and daughter. 100 01:19:13,850 --> 01:19:15,850 Thymian still leads the same life. 101 01:19:17,850 --> 01:19:24,380 After a brief, trying illness, my beloved husband, 102 01:19:25,409 --> 01:19:31,979 the pharmacist Karl Friedrich Henning 103 01:19:33,010 --> 01:19:37,189 passed away yesterday, on the 17th of June, 1929. 104 01:19:50,729 --> 01:19:54,239 INHERITANCE NOTICES 105 01:19:54,850 --> 01:19:59,130 Thymian Henning, as legal heir to Herr Henning's estate, 106 01:19:59,850 --> 01:20:03,260 is requested to attend the reading of the will, 107 01:20:03,850 --> 01:20:07,539 which will take place in the house of the deceased. 108 01:20:40,050 --> 01:20:42,819 Money will enter the house - over a short course - 109 01:20:43,329 --> 01:20:46,279 by way of a dark lady! 110 01:21:14,329 --> 01:21:16,399 Why, you're rich! 111 01:21:20,810 --> 01:21:24,949 Yes, l could start another life - 112 01:21:32,489 --> 01:21:36,630 For another life - you need a new identity! 113 01:21:57,970 --> 01:22:00,180 He should marry her! 114 01:22:00,609 --> 01:22:03,279 Countess Thymian Osdorff: there's an identity! 115 01:23:08,170 --> 01:23:12,100 You insist on exercising your right 116 01:23:12,770 --> 01:23:16,350 to take over the pharmacy.... 117 01:23:16,970 --> 01:23:22,800 ...and drive your friend's poor widow out of her home? 118 01:25:16,170 --> 01:25:20,100 Countess, Herr Meinert has redeemed the mortgage 119 01:25:20,770 --> 01:25:24,350 of 45.000 marks that you inherited from your mother... 120 01:25:24,970 --> 01:25:27,569 and thus becomes the sole owner of the pharmacy. 121 01:25:28,050 --> 01:25:30,329 Here is the money. 122 01:29:49,170 --> 01:29:51,199 Filthy slut! 123 01:30:58,050 --> 01:31:01,880 The money! Where's all the money? - 124 01:31:04,289 --> 01:31:11,000 l gave it to my little sister, so she doesn't end up like me. 125 01:33:35,170 --> 01:33:38,960 And me? Am l to blame in the end? 126 01:33:58,170 --> 01:34:01,220 I, his uncle, bear most of the blame. 127 01:34:01,770 --> 01:34:05,319 l should never have repudiated that helpless lad! 128 01:34:23,649 --> 01:34:29,550 May l attempt to repay you with the debt l owe him? 129 01:34:50,250 --> 01:34:55,590 We're now in Swinemünde. Uncle Osdorff is so kind to me. 130 01:34:56,449 --> 01:35:01,720 My former life often seems like an ugly, terrible dream. 131 01:37:23,729 --> 01:37:26,079 Cousin Osdorff - ! 132 01:37:51,409 --> 01:37:55,590 My niece - Countess Osdorff: 133 01:38:19,010 --> 01:38:24,140 Little Thymian, you don't recognize me any more? 134 01:38:53,010 --> 01:39:00,000 Dear Countess, l hope you'll let me take care of you. 135 01:39:12,689 --> 01:39:16,199 I'd like - for us to leave! 136 01:39:24,770 --> 01:39:27,819 We beg you, dear Countess, to work with us 137 01:39:28,369 --> 01:39:31,920 in our society for saving wayward young girls. 138 01:39:34,289 --> 01:39:40,020 Countess Thymian Osdorff is invited to the board meeting 139 01:39:40,930 --> 01:39:46,159 and to examine our institution on 19 August 1929. 140 01:40:51,930 --> 01:40:55,720 Our youngest member - Countess Osdorff. 141 01:42:08,010 --> 01:42:12,010 Today we have an especially difficult case. 142 01:42:18,130 --> 01:42:23,079 A young girl has once again been entrusted to us.... 143 01:42:23,890 --> 01:42:26,800 ...who has struck down our every educational measure 144 01:42:27,329 --> 01:42:29,289 by repeatedly running away. 145 01:43:29,130 --> 01:43:32,500 How we've worried about her - 146 01:43:50,090 --> 01:43:55,529 Fabulous!! My dear, try the soup they make here! 147 01:44:26,569 --> 01:44:31,590 Yet she constantly turns away from the blessings of our home - 148 01:45:17,250 --> 01:45:21,430 l know this house and its "blessings" - 149 01:45:39,289 --> 01:45:42,340 Your ignorance won't help her - 150 01:45:42,890 --> 01:45:45,630 l want to try, for l was once what she is. 151 01:46:45,130 --> 01:46:50,119 A little more love and no-one would be lost in this world!