Which German silent film director made the 1929 film Pandora’s Box starring Louise Brooks?

Georg Wilhelm Pabst directed the 1929 German silent film Pandora’s Box starring Louise Brooks. The film is based primarily on Frank Wedekind’s plays Earth Spirit and Pandora’s Box.

Louise Brooks plays Lulu, a charismatic and socially disruptive woman whose relationships lead to escalating personal and legal consequences. Pabst’s direction and Brooks’s performance later made the film a major work of Weimar-era German cinema and an important example of silent-film style.

The film is not a literal retelling of the ancient Greek Pandora myth. Its title refers to the idea of a beautiful figure whose presence unleashes destructive consequences, adapting a symbolic connection rather than reproducing Hesiod’s plot. The movie was initially controversial and received mixed responses, but later criticism praised its visual design, sexual modernity, and Brooks’s screen presence.