Which 1929 German film, directed by G. W. Pabst, is commonly called Pandora’s Box?

The 1929 German film directed by G. W. Pabst is commonly called Pandora’s Box. Its German title is Die Büchse der Pandora, and Louise Brooks plays Lulu, the film’s central character.

The film is loosely associated with Frank Wedekind’s stage plays Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora. It is not a direct screen retelling of Hesiod’s Greek myth. Instead, the title uses the mythological image of a woman whose presence is linked with desire, danger, and destructive consequences.

Pabst’s film is a major work of Weimar-era cinema and is especially remembered for Brooks’s performance. Lulu is not the ancient Pandora, and the film’s plot, setting, and characters belong to twentieth-century German cinema rather than classical mythology.

The title can create confusion because “Pandora’s Box” is also an idiom and the name of other works. The specific 1929 film is identified by Pabst, Brooks, and its German production context.