Thymiane is a beautiful young girl who is not having a storybook life. Her governess, Elizabeth, is thrown out of her home when she is pregnant, only to be later found drown. That same day, her father already has a new governess named Meta. Meinert, downstairs druggist, takes advance of her and gets Thymiane pregnant. When she refuses to marry, her baby is taken from her and she is put into a strict girls reform school. When Count Osdorff is unable to get the family to take her back, he waits for her to escape. She escapes with a friend and the friend goes with the Count while she goes to see her baby. Thymiane finds that her baby is dead, and the Count has put both girls up at a brothel. When her father dies, Thymiane marries the Count and becomes a Countess, but her past and her hatred of Meta will come back to her.
| Release Date: | Sep 1929 |
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| Genre: | Drama |
| Cast: | Louise Brooks (Thymian), André Roanne (Count Nicolas Osdorff), Josef Rovenský (Robert Henning), Fritz Rasp (Meinert), Vera Pawlowa (Aunt Frieda), Franziska Kinz (Meta), Arnold Korff (Elder Count Osdorff), Andrews Engelmann (The director of the establishment), Valeska Gert (The director's wife), Edith Meinhard (Erika), Sybille Schmitz (Elisabeth), Sig Arno (Guest (as Siegfried Arno)), Kurt Gerron (Dr. Vitalis), Hedwig Schlichter (), Hans Casparius (), Jaro Fürth (), Emmy Wyda (), Marfa Kassatskaya ((as M. Kasazkaya)), Sylvia Torf (), Michael von Newlinsky () |