Pandora's Box (1929 film)
Pandora's Box 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 and Die Büchse der Pandora.
Louise Brooks as Lulu in a publicity still of the film
Georg Wilhelm Pabst was an Austrian film director and screenwriter. He started as an actor and theater director, before becoming one of the most influential German-language filmmakers during the Weimar Republic.
G. W. Pabst during production of the film L'Opéra de quat'sous (The Threepenny Opera) in 1931
Grave of G.W. Pabst, his wife and son at the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna