Pandora’s Box

Die Büchse der Pandora, feature film, 1929

DIRECTED BY: Georg Pabst

Pandora’s Box

CAST:
Louise Brooks (Lulu),
Fritz Kortner (dr. Peter Schön),
Francis Lederer (Alwa Schön),
Carl Götz (Schigolch),
Krafft-Raschig (Rodrigo Quast)

SCRIPT:
Joseph Fleisler,
Georg Wilhelm Pabst,
Ladislauds Vajda (prema dramama Franka Wedekinda)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Günther Krampf

Synopsis:
This is a tragic story about Lulu, a dancer and prostitute who kills her rich lover Dr. Schön after he refuses to marry her. Afterwards, she runs away to Paris with the doctor’s son, Alwa. She stays with her father Schigolch, but soon her selfishness distances her from other people and she ends up walking the streets alone.

b/w, silent, 100 min