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25 October 2024 Bielefeld (Germany)
Film + Music Festival: Diary of a lost person
Natalie Böttcher, Solo accordion - Rudolf-Oetker Halle
Program Info: Georg Wilhelm Pabst's film Diary of a Lost Woman , based on the successful novel of the same name by Margarete Böhme, which was first published in 1905, is the third adaptation for the cinema - and his second production with the American actress Louise Brooks. Thyme, the daughter of a pharmacist, is seduced by one of her father's friends, raped and rejected by her family after the birth of the illegitimate child. She has to go to the home, where she suffers under the sadistic rule of the head couple. When Thymian meets a penniless count, she flees with him to the big city and works in a brothel there. One day she meets her own father there, who can no longer recover from this shock. After his death, Thyme suddenly finds himself as a wealthy heiress...
Pabst created a social drama that not only exposes the hypocrisy and perfidy of the bourgeoisie, but also opens up a new perspective for the tragic heroine and at the end allows her to raise her voice in a passionate plea against mendacity and hypocrisy and for more humanity. Few German films of the 1920s were as controversial and subjected to such rigid censorship and thus mutilation as Pabst's Diary of a Lost Woman. In 1997, the Cineteca di Bologna reported the discovery of a nitrocopy that contained most of the previously lost scenes: an extensive "gymnastics class" sequence in the brothel, sadistic scenes in the boarding school and the ultimate punishment of the guards by angry girls. The German Film Institute and the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation undertook the complete reconstruction of the film and in 2013 the Murnau Foundation had the restoration digitized in high resolution.
Henri Langlois, director of the Cinémathèque Française, who rehabilitated Brooks as an icon of silent film after decades of oblivion, described her magic: “Once you have seen her, you will never forget her. She is the modern actress par excellence. …She is the intelligence of the cinematic process, the perfect embodiment of the photogenic; She embodies everything that cinema has rediscovered in the last years of its silence: complete naturalness and absolute simplicity. Your art is so pure that it becomes invisible.«
The sensational Hamburg solo accordionist Natalie Böttcher is a guest at the Film+MusicFest for the second time.
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