Kino Lorber is proud to announce the Blu-ray and DVD release of G.W. Pabst's DIARY OF A LOST GIRL (1929), starring the iconic silent film actress Louise Brooks. Newly mastered in HD from 35mm archival elements, this restoration by the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, Deutches Filminstitut - DIF, Frankfurt am Main, and the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Wiesbaden reconstructs the film to its original release version after years of editing due to censorship. A follow-up to their successful collaboration on the previous year's Pandora's Box, Pabst and Brooks reunited for this controversial film (adapted from the novel by Margarethe Böhme) to create another stylish, sensual drama that has become an enduring classic of silent cinema.

Set to street on October 20th, DIARY OF A LOST GIRL will become available on Blu-ray and DVD with a SRP of $29.95 for the Blu-ray and $24.95 for the DVD, presented with a piano score by Javier Perez de Azpeitia, and the original German intertitles with optional English subtitles. Special features include an audio commentary by film historian Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society, "Windy Riley Goes Hollywood" (1931, 18 min.) - a short film featuring Brooks, and the 2015 promotional trailer.

DIARY OF A LOST GIRL was drastically shortened and altered due to censorship. In 1997, a reconstruction and photochemical restoration of the originally intended version was performed by the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, das Deutsche Filminstitut - DIF, Frankfurt am Main, and the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Wiesbaden. It is based on a dupe-negative from the Danish Film Institute, Copenhagen. Most of the missing scenes were added from a contemporary print from the Archivo Nacional de la Imagen-Sodre, Montevideo. The reconstruction of the cut shown at the original screening was based on a comparison of the surviving prints of the movie as well as the censorship records at the Filmoberprüfstelle Berlin. Substantial damage to the images such as deterioration of the source material has been retouched as much as possible.