Which actor plays Lulu in the 1929 silent film Pandora’s Box?

Louise Brooks plays Lulu in the 1929 silent film Pandora’s Box.

Brooks was an American actress and dancer whose short bob haircut became one of the defining images of 1920s cinema. In Pandora’s Box, she portrays Lulu, a charismatic and sexually independent woman whose relationships and choices drive the film’s tragic plot.

The movie was directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst and adapted from Frank Wedekind’s plays Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora. Although its title refers to the ancient myth, the film is a modern European drama rather than a literal depiction of Pandora’s creation or jar.

Brooks’s performance initially had a mixed reception, but later critics and film historians recognized it as a landmark of silent cinema. The role became closely identified with her screen persona and helped make the film a major example of Weimar-era German filmmaking.