The 1929 film Pandora’s Box is primarily associated with Germany.
It was a German silent film directed by G. W. Pabst and produced during the Weimar Republic, the period of German history between the end of World War I and the Nazi seizure of power. The film belongs to the internationally influential German cinema of the late 1920s.
Louise Brooks, who played Lulu, was American, which sometimes leads viewers to classify the production as American. Her nationality and the film’s German production are separate facts. The source material was also German: Frank Wedekind wrote the plays Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora in German.
Pandora’s Box is therefore best identified as a German production even though it had an international cast and later became especially associated with Brooks’s American stardom. Its cultural setting is modern European drama, not a direct depiction of ancient Greece or the original Pandora myth.