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Preservation student Angela Holm convinced Hugh Hefner to fund the restoration of a film by this director, which obtained its intertitles from a list found in a Swedish censorship office. In a film by this director, the protagonist faints after running to tell her father about the drowning of their previous housekeeper, only to find him with his arm around their successor. In that film by this director, the protagonist unknowingly passes a man carrying a casket that contains her child, who she was separated from after being sent to a reformatory school. A 1929 film by this director generated controversy for the sexual attraction of the (*) Countess Geschwitz to the female protagonist. That film by this director ends with the death of Lulu after she solicits (10[1])Jack the Ripper on Christmas Eve. For 10 points, name this Weimar-era Austrian director who cast Louise Brooks in his films Diary of a Lost Girl and Pandora’s Box. ■END■

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