LOUISE BROOKS in Pandora’s Box (1929)! HD ENG subs

Starring the icon of cinema; Louise Brooks and directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Pandora’s Box follows Lulu, a seductive, thoughtless young woman whose raw sexuality and uninhibited nature bring ruin to herself and those who love her. It is based on Frank Wedekind’s plays Erdgeist (1895) and Die Büchse der Pandora (1904). Released in 1929, Pandora’s Box was a critical failure, dismissed by German critics as a bastardization of its source material. Brooks’ role in the film was also subject to criticism, fueled by the fact that Brooks was an American. In the United Kingdom, France, and the United States, the film was shown in significantly truncated and re-edited versions, which eliminated certain subplots, including the film’s original, downbeat ending. By the mid-20th century, Pandora’s Box was rediscovered by film scholars and began to earn a reputation as an deserving unsung classic of Weimar German cinema. The film would go on to influence many form of media and the image