The usual English title of Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s 1929 German film about Lulu is Pandora’s Box.
Pandora’s Box is a silent German film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst and released in 1929. It stars Louise Brooks as Lulu, a charismatic and destructive figure adapted from Frank Wedekind’s plays Earth Spirit and Pandora’s Box. The film is known for its expressive visual style and for Brooks’s performance.
The title connects Lulu’s destructive effect on those around her with the Pandora myth, although the film is not a direct screen adaptation of Hesiod’s story. Its plot follows Lulu through relationships, scandal, social downfall, and violence.
The film is often discussed alongside other major German works of the silent era, but it is distinct from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and M. Those films belong to the same broad cinematic history but tell entirely different stories.