Pandora’s central character in the 1929 German silent film directed by G. W. Pabst is named Lulu.
Pandora’s Box, released in 1929, stars Louise Brooks as Lulu, a charismatic woman whose relationships and choices drive the film’s tragic story. The movie was directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst and is loosely associated with Frank Wedekind’s Lulu plays, Earth Spirit and Pandora’s Box.
The film is often remembered for Brooks’s distinctive bobbed hairstyle and for its place in German cinema of the Weimar period. It was not a direct screen adaptation of the ancient Greek myth. Instead, the title invokes the mythic idea of a figure whose presence unleashes destructive consequences.
Lulu is sometimes confused with Pandora because English-language summaries emphasize the film’s title rather than the character’s name. The story, setting, and source material belong to early twentieth-century European drama, while the name Pandora comes from the film’s symbolic framing.