Pandora's Box

Beschrijving
Originele titel: Die Buchse der Pandora
G.W. Pabst's silent masterpiece stars Louise Brooks as Lulu, the femme fatale who causes passions to overheat wherever she goes. The mistress of a Berlin newspaper editor until his untimely death, Lulu subsequently takes up with his son as she seeks to evade the attentions of the law.
Pandora's Box on DVD is a clean, crisp transfer in the classic 4:3 ratio, and the mono soundtrack brings out all the detail of Peer Rubens' Kurt Weill-inflected score, stylishly performed by the Kontraste Ensemble. Dialogue intertitles can be read in either English or German. We also get an outstanding 60-minute documentary, Looking for Lulu, about Brooks' life and career: warmly narrated by Shirley MacLaine, it features excerpts from an interview with Brooks from 1976.

Regisseur: Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Cast: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner and Francis Lederer

Ondertiteling: Engels