Diary of a Lost Girl

Domestic mayhem from the beginning, Sybille Schmitz (as housekeeper/governess Elisabeth, and the model for the lead character director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Veronika Voss, 1982) flees, overseen by Aunt Frida (Vera Pawlowa) and the pharmacist Henning (Josef Rovensky), and alarming his daughter, Louise Brooks as the title character, Thymian, with Fritz Rasp as the creepy assistant pharmacist Meinert, in G.W. Pabst’s Diary Of A Lost Girl, 1929.