Pandora's Box, the 1929 film, was adapted from plays by which playwright?

The 1929 film Pandora's Box was adapted from plays by Frank Wedekind.

Its story draws on Wedekind's two Lulu dramas, Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box. Together, those plays follow Lulu, a provocative and socially disruptive figure whose relationships expose hypocrisy, desire, class tension, and violence.

Director Georg Wilhelm Pabst and screenwriter Ladislaus Vajda reshaped the stage material for silent cinema. Louise Brooks played Lulu, and her performance became so closely associated with the film that later discussions often focus on her rather than on Wedekind's original theatrical works.

The title can lead to confusion with the ancient Greek myth. Wedekind's Pandora's Box is not a direct retelling of Hesiod's story; it uses the name as part of a modern dramatic framework. The film's Lulu narrative is therefore a literary and cinematic adaptation, not a depiction of Pandora opening the mythological jar.