In which city did the 1929 film Pandora’s Box premiere?

The 1929 film Pandora’s Box premiered in Berlin.

Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s German silent film was first presented in Berlin in 1929. The premiere placed the film in the cultural environment of the Weimar Republic, a period associated with experimentation in cinema, theater, design, and popular culture. Louise Brooks’s performance as Lulu later became the film’s best-known feature, but the original release was part of the German silent-film industry before sound cinema fully transformed production and exhibition.

Pandora’s Box was adapted from Frank Wedekind’s Lulu plays rather than from Hesiod’s ancient story. Its title connects Lulu’s destructive social and erotic power with the metaphor of Pandora’s opened container. The Berlin premiere is a film-history fact, not a detail from the Greek myth. Confusing the city with Vienna can happen because both were major German-speaking cultural centers, but the film’s premiere is specifically associated with Berlin.