Pandora's Box (1929 film)

Pandora's Box
Theatrical poster
Directed byG. W. Pabst
Written byG.W. Pabst
Ladislaus Vajda
Based onDie Büchse der Pandora ("Pandora's Box") and Erdgeist ("Earth Spirit")
by Frank Wedekind
Produced bySeymour Nebenzal
StarringLouise Brooks
Francis Lederer
Carl Goetz
Alice Roberts
CinematographyGünther Krampf
Production
company
Distributed bySüd-Film
Release date
  • 30 January 1929 (1929-01-30)
Running time
133 minutes[a]
CountryGermany
LanguagesSilent film
German intertitles

Pandora's Box (German: Die Büchse der Pandora) is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, and starring Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, and Francis Lederer. The film follows Lulu, a seductive young woman whose uninhibited nature brings ruin to herself and those who love her. It is based on Frank Wedekind's plays Erdgeist ("Earth Spirit", 1895) and Die Büchse der Pandora ("Pandora's Box", 1904).[2]

Dismissed by critics on its initial release, Pandora's Box was later rediscovered by film scholars as a classic of Weimar German cinema.

  1. ^ "Pandora's Box". British Board of Film Classification. 30 June 2002. Archived from the original on 21 May 2020.
  2. ^ Pandora's Box (Commentary). G. W. Pabst. New York City, New York: The Criterion Collection. 2006 [1929]. CC1656D.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)


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