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Title: Pandora's Box (1929)
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Jack the Ripper
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Marquis Casti-Piani
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Lulu is a beautiful young woman who can seemingly work her charms on all of the men around her. She is currently being kept by the rich editor Dr. Ludwig Schön. She is just a plaything however and he is engaged to be married to Charlotte, a woman of his own class. He arranges for Lulu to appear in his son Alwa's musical revue and he too falls for all of her charms. When Dr. Schön and his fiancée go to the theater, Lulu ensures that he is put in a compromising situation and the elder Schön feels he now must marry her, knowing full well it will ruin his reputation. On his wedding day, Dr. Schön reaches his breaking point. His actions cost him his life however and Lulu is convicted of manslaughter. She escapes with the help of her old cronies but together they begin a downward spiral. Written by garykmcd
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Country:
GermanyLanguage:
GermanRelease Date:
22 February 1930 (Japan) See more »Also Known As:
Pandora's Box See more »Filming Locations:
Nero-Film Studio, Berlin, GermanyBox Office
Opening Weekend:
$9,950 (USA) (16 June 2006)Gross:
$9,950 (USA) (16 June 2006)Company Credits
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(restored) | (Copy with French titles at Brussels Musée du Cinéma) | (original) | (VHS)Sound Mix:
SilentColor:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1
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For his movie "Die Büchse Der Pandora (Panodra's Box)", G.W. Pabst took together the tragedies "Der Erdgeist" and "Die Büchse Der Pandora", forming the famous Lulu-diptych written by German dramatist Frank Wedekind (1864-1918), an important ancestor of literary expressionism, who wrote amongst other works "Frühlings Erwachen" that caused many scandals.
What is congenial about this movie, is not only the fact, that Louise Brooks is doubtless the best Lulu ever seen (in theater as well as on the screen), but how G.W. Pabst managed to amalgamate this two literary masterpieces of the time of sexual liberation in Europe.
It is a real pity, that not more of Pabst work can be reached in the US and that most of his work is not available at all on DVD.