Product Description

Australia released, PAL/Region 0 DVD:it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),English ( Subtitles ),SPECIAL FEATURES: Cast/Crew Interview(s), Documentary, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Uncut,SYNOPSIS: German filmmaker G.W . Pabst's late-silent classic Pandora's Box (Die Busch de Pandora) stars the hauntingly beautiful Louise Brooks as libertine dancer Lulu. Ever out for the Main Chance, Lulu tries to persuade her wealthy lover Dr. Schon (Fritz Kortner) to marry her. When he refuses, she shoots him. Escaping to London with the doctor's moonstruck son Alwa (Francis Lederer), Lulu takes up residence with her bisexual 'adopted' father (Carl Gotz). Soon Lulu's selfish behavior alienates everyone, and she is reduced to walking the streets, with tragic consequences. Based on two works by the controversial German novelist. Even after seven decades, Pandora's Box exudes smoky sensuality in every frame. Regarded now as a masterpiece, the film received surprisingly scathing reviews, with most of the critical broadsides aimed at Louise Brooks (this was long before Brooks graduated from just another pretty Hollywood starlet to Cult Goddess).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #179566 in DVD
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Import, PAL, Director's Cut
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 131 minutes

Features

• THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER

Customer Reviews

One of the most genuine gems of the silent German Cinema!
This film is a treasure. If I had requested for the two most prominent pictures of the German Neo Realism before the WW2, I would mention The Blue Angel and this one.

Louise Brooks gave a terrific performance with this exigent role. Lulu is not a femme fatale. She incarnates the passport for depravation and perdition surrounded her magnetic smile and her candid baby face. It was literally impossible to escape from her alluring charm.

The picture turns around her awful life that elapsed between low depths places and cabarets, but Pabst 's touch of genius resided to underline the precognitive aspect , remarked by Fritz Lang through Brigitte Helm 's character. But Pabst drew the curtains of a hopeless, anguish, desperate and hunger society, trapped and devoured by their own demons. Jack the ripper will be simply a simple fate 's puppet in this sinister parade of desolation and moral orphanage in which the German Society was sunk.

Overwhelming film that conforms the Supreme Pantheon of the consecrated golden German Expressionist movies, together with Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, The hands of Orlac, Dr. Mabusse and its sequels, Metropolis, The last man, Sigfrid, Kriemhilde 's revenge and M.

Still fascinating today
The story is timeless and still holds your attention today. I was amazed as to how modern the film is its self. Probably the best know of G.W. Pabst's works. Being a film from the silent era gives this film a collector's value; yet five minutes into viewing and you do not realize it is silent.

LuLu (Louise Brooks) an amoral entertainer in 1928 Berlin, is having fun taking men for all they have and snubbing those that may care for her. After moving to London she is still in the habit of entertaining men at her place. She is about to open Pandora's Box as she has no idea who she has lured up to her place.

If you are looking for an ending with a moral statement you will be disappointed as it is more of a Quid pro quo.

If it is not already included on the media you picked for this film there is an available separate documentary Produced in 1998 for Turner Classic Movies called "Looking for Lulu", narrated by Shirley MacLaine, which is almost as interesting as this film.

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