Diary of a Lost Girl with live piano and Book Signing with Daniel Kehlmann

Dir. G. W. Pabst. 1929, 110 mins. Germany. 35mm. With Louise Brooks, Fritz Rasp, André Roanne, Josef Rovensky. Following their landmark collaboration Pandora’s Box, director G.W. Pabst and the incandescent Louise Brooks reunited for this dazzling melodrama, a quintessential work of the German silent era. Brooks plays an innocent pharmacist’s daughter who endures corruption and abuse on her path to liberation. Followed by a discussion and book signing with bestselling author Daniel Kehlmann, whose acclaimed new novel, The Director, was inspired by the complex life of Pabst. Part of Silents, Please!