The Diary of a Lost Woman (1918)

Movie
Original title	The diary of someone lost
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1918
length	94 minutes
Rod
Director	Richard Oswald
script	Richard Oswald
production	Richard Oswald
camera	Max Fassbender
occupation
Erna Morena : Thyme Godball Reinhold Schünzel : Count Casimir Osdorf Werner Krauss : Provisional Meinert Paul Rehkopf : Pharmacist Gotteball Clementine Plessner : Aunt Frieda Conrad Veidt : Dr. Julius Max Laurence : old count, father of Casimir Ilse Wehrmann : Elisabeth Woyens Marga Köhler : stepmother Lina Peters Marie von Bülow : Fräulein Woyens (Frau Kindermann?) Clementine Plessner : Aunt Frieda

Diary of a Lost (alternative title: The Diary of a Dead and A Berlin Zeitbild from 1914 ) is a German film drama by Richard Oswald from 1918. The screenplay of this silent film is based on the novel of the same name by Margarete Böhme from 1905.

action

The pharmacist's daughter Thymian Gotteball is seduced and impregnated by provisional Meinert, one of her father's employees. After the birth of her child, she is cast out by her own family and admitted to an educational institution. As a result, she gets more and more into social isolation. Only when an old count takes care of her and marries her does she gain access to both aristocratic and middle-class circles.

background

The production company was Richard Oswald-Film GmbH Berlin (No. 121). The buildings were created by August Rinaldi .

The film was presented to the Berlin police in July 1918 in a version of six files at 2,201 meters. Despite considerable cuts to 1,934 meters, approx. 94 minutes, (and still six acts), the film was not only banned from young people, it was also banned for the duration of the war (No. 41795). The Munich police also issued a youth ban (No. 29883, 29884, 29885, 29886, 29887, 29888). The Berlin Reich Film Censorship renewed the youth ban (No. 2766) on July 5, 1922.

The premiere therefore took place on October 28 or 29, 1918 both at UT Kurfürstendamm and at UT Nollendorfplatz , but before the armistice on November 11, 1918 .

In the same year Oswald made the film Dida Ibsen's story - a finale to Margarete Böhme's “Diary of a Lost One” , which is a continuation of the subject.

Availability

The film seems to have been preserved.

See also

• Diary of a Lost One

Web links

• The diary of a lost woman at filmportal.de
• The Diary of a Lost Woman at The German Early Cinema Database
• The Diary of a Lost in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Film length calculator , frame rate : 18
2. ↑ Film distribution at filmportal.de