Pandora’s Box (1929)
aka Die Büchse der Pandora
Genre: Crime | Drama
Country: Germany | Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Language: Music with German Intertitles
Subtitles: English (Optional, embedded in Mkv file)
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 | Length: 131mn
Bdrip H264 Mkv – 1440×1080 – 23.976fps – 6.33gb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018737/
Audio 1, 2, 3, 4: Four musical scores, by
Gillian Anderson, Dimitar Pentchev, Peer Raben, and Stéphan Oliva
Audio 5: Commentary by Film Scholars Thomas Elsaesser and Mary Ann Doane
Lulu is a beautiful young woman who can seemingly work her charms on all of the men around her. She is currently being kept by the rich editor Dr. Ludwig Schön. She is just a plaything however and he is engaged to be married to Charlotte, a woman of his own class. He arranges for Lulu to appear in his son Alwa’s musical revue and he too falls for all of her charms. When Dr. Schön and his fiancée go to the theater, Lulu ensures that he is put in a compromising situation and the elder Schön feels he now must marry her, knowing full well it will ruin his reputation. On his wedding day, Dr. Schön reaches his breaking point. His actions cost him his life however and Lulu is convicted of manslaughter. She escapes with the help of her old cronies but together they begin a downward spiral.
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