Pandora's Box (film)

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Movie
Original title Pandora's Box
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1929
length 143 minutes
Rod
Director Georg Wilhelm Pabst
script Joseph Fleisler
Ladislaus Vajda
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
production Seymour minor number
music Timothy Brock
occupation

Pandora's Box is a German silent film from 1929. It was directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst . The main role was played by the American actress Louise Brooks . The story of the film is loosely based on the dramas Erdgeist and The Pandora's Box by Frank Wedekind .

action

Lulu is a young dancer with whom several men and a woman fall in love and perish as a result of her. Dr. Nice, a wealthy, influential newspaper publisher, succumbs to her charms. But for social reasons he wants to marry another woman. However, due to a scandal staged by Lulu, it doesn't come to that and Dr. Well married Lulu. Already on the wedding night there was a scuffle, in the course of which Dr. Nice shot. Lulu arrives in court and is found guilty of manslaughter, but manages to escape the courtroom and has a love affair with Alwa, the son of Dr. Good to go. Both flee from the police and finally end up in a brothel that is operated on a ship. Lulu has to prostitute herself there so that she is not betrayed to the police by her blackmailing pimp. When Lulu is about to be sold to a wealthy client, Alwa and Lulu flee to London, where Lulu falls victim to the woman murderer Jack the Ripper .

censorship

January 30, 1929: Youth ban - approval card from the Berlin Film Inspectorate B.21540, 8 files 3255 meters (3265 meters before censorship)

April 9, 1934 Ban - Film-Oberprüfstelle O.7290, at the request of the Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda

backgrounds

Pandora's Box was one of the first films to feature a lesbian woman.

The film constructions come from Andrej Andrejew .

criticism

"She stands there, smiling, with childlike pleasure in her senses."

- Film-Kurier dated February 11, 1929

"With this film, Pabst consolidated his reputation as an astute psychologist and as a master of the image and the montage."

- Lexicon of international film

Others

There is a restored version of the film, published by the Munich Film Museum with a length of 3020 meters (132 minutes), new opening credits and new subtitles .

In OMD 's pop song Pandora's Box (1991) , both the text (addressed to Louise Brooks) and the video (using numerous scenes from the film) are intended as an homage to Brooks and her greatest film.

The film production studio Pandora Film Verleih was named after the silent film The Pandora's Box .

literature

  • Christiane Mückenberger: Pandora's box. In Günther Dahlke, Günter Karl (ed.): German feature films from the beginning to 1933. A film guide. 2nd edition, Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-89487-009-5 , p. 176 ff.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yearbook of the Film Industry. Vol. 4, 1928/29/30, ZDB -ID 532211-x .
  2. ↑ Letter No. 7290 from the head of the Filmoberprüfstelle to the state governments of April 9, 1934.
  3. ↑ Hans Scheugl : Sexuality and Neurosis in Film. The cinema myths from Griffith to Warhol (= Heyne-Bücher 7074 Heyne-Sachbuch ). Approved, unabridged paperback edition. Heyne, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-453-00899-5 , p. 204.
  4. ^ Film courier. Vol. 11, February 11, 1929, ZDB -ID 575776-9 .
  5. ↑ Pandora's box. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ hr2 Worth knowing, Michaela Wunderle: "Crash course film: The right turn - the role of the producer" (MP3; 12.6 MB). Karl Baumgartner, producer of Pandora Film, and Rainer Ewerrien, screenwriter, talk about their work.