German Empire,
1929, 104 min
Directed by:
Georg Wilhelm PabstCinematography:
Sepp AllgeierCast:
Louise Brooks, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp, Arnold Korff, Valeska Gert, Sybille Schmitz, Sig Arno, Kurt Gerron, André Roanne, Andrews Engelmann, Franziska Kinz (more)Plots(1)
Brooks, in a delicately restrained performance, plays the naïve 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. (official distributor synopsis)
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