Which 1929 film features Louise Brooks as the character Lulu?

The 1929 film featuring Louise Brooks as Lulu is Pandora’s Box. Georg Wilhelm Pabst directed the German silent drama, which adapted Frank Wedekind’s Lulu plays for the screen.

Lulu is a central figure in Wedekind’s dramatic works and is portrayed as a captivating woman whose relationships bring her into conflict with social expectations and male desire. Brooks’s performance gives the character a combination of confidence, vulnerability, and emotional unpredictability that became central to the film’s reputation.

The film’s title can cause a historical mix-up. Ancient Greek mythology tells of Pandora and a jar, while the 1929 movie is based on modern German theater. It is not an adaptation of Hesiod’s Works and Days, and its plot does not involve gods creating the first woman or releasing evils from a vessel.

Pandora’s Box is now considered an important work of Weimar cinema. Its survival and restoration have helped introduce new audiences to both Pabst’s direction and Brooks’s screen legacy.