Pandora’s Box

(Die Büchse der Pandora)

  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano
featuring

Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Franz Lederer, Gustav Diessl,

In the role that made her a legend in Europe, and belatedly in America, Louise Brooks plays Lulu, the vamp who destroys all those who come under her spell but who falls victim to Jack the Ripper. A masterpiece of atmosphere, this is also one of the most sexually charged films ever made, due to Brooks’s incendiary performance and the peculiar vision of director G. W. Pabst. The key to Lulu is the artless amorality with which she destroys all who come under her spell; her indifference is at once distancing and magnetic, qualities Pabst used ingeniously. 

Judy Bloch
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Ladislaus Vajda
Based On
  • two plays by Frank Wedekind

Cinematographer
  • Günther Krampf
Language
  • Silent
  • with English intertitles
Print Info
  • B&W
  • DCP
  • Silent
  • 141 mins
Source
  • Janus Films

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