Die Büchse der Pandora [videorecording] : Variationen auf das Thema Frank Wedekinds Lulu = Pandora's box : variations on the theme of Frank Wedekind's Lulu / Janus Films ; Film Museum München ; ein Nero-Film ; Regie, Georg Wilhelm Pabst ; Drehbuch, Ladislaus Vajda ; Produktionsleitung, Georg C. Horsetzky ; Kameramann, Günther Krampf.
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FilmPublisher number: CC1656D | Criterion CollectionLanguage: German Series: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 358.Publication details: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2006.Description: 2 videodiscs (133 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (95 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)ISBN: - 1934121045
- 9781934121047
- Pandora's box
- PN1995.9.M45 P3636737 2006
- Art directors, Andrej Andrejew, Gottlieb Hesch ; graphic designer, Marcel Tuszkay.
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Adapted from the stage plays: Erdgeist & Die Büschse der Pandora / by Frank Wedekind.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1929.
"New, restored high-definition digital transfer of the definitive Munich Film Museum restoration"--Container.
Accompanying booklet ("Reflections on 'Pandora's box'") includes essays by film critic J. Hoberman ("Opening 'Pandora's box'"), film critic Kenneth Tynan ("The girl in the black helmet"), & actress Louise Brooks ("Pabst and Lulu").
Special features (disc 1): Optional audio commentary by film scholars Thomas Elsaesser & Mary Ann Doane; Four different musical scores (orchestral score by Gillian Anderson, cabaret score by Dimitar Pentchev, modern orchestral score by Peer Raben, piano improvisation by Stéphan Oliva).
Special features (disc 2): "Louise Brooks : looking for Lulu" (documentary film by Hugh Munro Neeley ; 1998, 60 min.); "Lulu in Berlin" (documentary filmmakers Richard Leacock & Susan Steinberg Woll interview actress Louise Brooks ; 1984, 48 min.); "The shadow of my father : Michael Pabst on G.W. Pabst's 'Pandora's box'" (interview with director G.W. Pabst's son by Richard Leacock ; 2006, 34 min. ; in German, with optional English subtitles); stills gallery.
Disc 1. The film -- Disc 2. The supplements.
Art directors, Andrej Andrejew, Gottlieb Hesch ; graphic designer, Marcel Tuszkay.
Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Franz Lederer, Carl Goetz, Krafft-Raschig, Alice Roberts, Daisy d'Ora, Gustav Diessl, Michael v. Newlinsky, Siegfried Arno.
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
Not rated by the MPAA.
DVD; region 1, NTSC; Dolby digital 5.1 (orchestral score only) or Dolby digital stereo.
Silent film with German intertitles and musical accompaniment; optional English subtitles.
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DVD 1652
Information booklet shelved separately. Title: Reflections on Pandora's box."