The 1929 film Pandora’s Box adapts plays by which German writer?

The 1929 film Pandora’s Box adapts plays by the German writer Frank Wedekind.

Wedekind created Lulu, the central character of the plays Earth Spirit and Pandora’s Box. These works examine sexuality, social hypocrisy, power, and the destructive judgments imposed on women. Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s film draws mainly from those two dramas rather than from the ancient Greek Pandora myth itself.

Wedekind’s Lulu cycle has also influenced opera, cinema, and theatre. Alban Berg’s opera Lulu is based on Wedekind’s plays, which can lead to confusion between the opera and Pabst’s film. The film’s title comes from Wedekind’s second Lulu play, while its plot condenses and rearranges material from both dramas.