Original Title: Die Büchse der Pandora
Year: 1929
Genre:
Crime, Drama, Romance
Category: Movie
IMDB Rating: 8 (NEVAZUT)
Country: Germany
Language:
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Writer: Frank Wedekind, Ladislaus Vajda, Joseph Fleisler, Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Composer: Stuart Oderman, Peer Raben, William P. Perry
Producer: Heinz Landsmann, Seymour Nebenzal
Actors: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz, Krafft-Raschig, Alice Roberts, Daisy D'Ora, Gustav Diessl, Michael von Newlinsky, Sig Arno
Description: 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.
Comments:
Duration: 109 minutes (at 25 frames per second)
File path: Z:\05518. Pandora's Box - Die BŘchse der Pandora (1929)\Pandora's Box - Die BŘchse der Pandora (1929).avi
Filesize: 1079 MB
Video: XviD - resolution: 720x544
Audio:
Subtitles: English