The 1929 German film also known as Die Büchse der Pandora is Pandora’s Box.
Die Büchse der Pandora is the German title of Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s silent film Pandora’s Box. Released in 1929, the film stars Louise Brooks as Lulu and adapts Frank Wedekind’s plays Earth Spirit and Pandora’s Box. Its German title translates directly as “The Box of Pandora,” while the standard English title reverses the order into “Pandora’s Box.”
The film is a major work of Weimar cinema and is remembered for Brooks’s performance, Pabst’s direction, and its provocative portrayal of Lulu. It uses the Pandora image symbolically: Lulu’s presence is associated with consequences that spread through the lives of the people around her.
This movie is not a visual adaptation of Hesiod’s myth. No Greek jar-opening episode drives the plot. The shared title reflects the Wedekind play and the metaphor of unleashed disaster, making the film a separate cultural use of Pandora’s name.