UW Cinematheque - Special Presentations
Pandora's Box (Die Buchse Der Pandora) | Germany | 1928 | DCP | 141 min. | German with English subtitles Director: G.W. Pabst
Event Details
Date
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Time
7 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Gustav Diessl
Brooks plays Lulu, heroine of Frank Wedekind’s beloved German plays. An innocently immoral sexual predator, Lulu discards and destroys men as she tries to get ahead…until she meets Jack the Ripper. After a series of nondescript flapper films, the American Brooks abandoned Hollywood in favor of artistically richer projects in Europe. She emerged a screen icon through her work on Pandora’s Box, Pabst’s masterpiece of silent cinema.
Brooks plays Lulu, heroine of Frank Wedekind’s beloved German plays. An innocently immoral sexual predator, Lulu discards and destroys men as she tries to get ahead…until she meets Jack the Ripper. After a series of nondescript flapper films, the American Brooks abandoned Hollywood in favor of artistically richer projects in Europe. She emerged a screen icon through her work on Pandora’s Box, Pabst’s masterpiece of silent cinema.
Cost
Free
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