Die Büchse der Pandora (1929)




Louise Brooks - Die Büchse der Pandora

Louise Brooks - Die Büchse der Pandora




When the censors got through with this German-made picture featuring Louise Brooks, there was little left but a faint, musty odor. It is the story, both spicy and sordid, of a little dancing girl who spread evil everywhere without being too naughty herself. Interesting to American fans because it shows Louise, formerly an American ingénue in silent films, doing grand work as the evil-spreader. Silent.

Photoplay February 1930



Vintage magazines

Photoplay , February 1930
Photoplay , February 1930

Books with substantial mentioning of Die Büchse der Pandora

David Thomson
Moments that made the movies
London, 2014

Hans Helmut Prinzler
Licht und Schatten, Die grossen Stumm- und Tonfilme der Weimarer Republik
München; Berlin, 2012

Laurence Kardish
Weimar cinema, 1919-1933, Daydreams and nightmares
New York, NY, 2010

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Brian J. Robb
Silent cinema
Harpenden, Herts, 2007

Roger Ebert
The Great Movies
2003

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Robert K. Klepper
Silent Films, 1877-1996, A Critical Guide to 646 Movies
Jefferson, North Carolina and London, 1999

Gerald Koll
Pandoras Schätze, Erotikkonzeptionen in den Stummfilmen von G. W. Pabst
München, 1998

Gero Gandert (herausgeber)
Der Film der Weimarer Republik, 1929
Berlin, 1997

Danny Peary
Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present
New York, 1993

Danny Peary
Cult Movies, The Classics, the Sleepers, the Weird, and the Wonderful
New York, 1989

Günther Dahlke
Deutsche Spielfilme von dem Anfängen bis 1933, Ein Filmführer
Berlin, 1988

Ann Lloyd (ed.)
Movies of the Silent Years
London, 1985

Books with an entry on Die Büchse der Pandora

Robert B. Connelly
The Motion Picture Guide, Silent Film 1910-1936
Chicago, 1986

Articles on Die Büchse der Pandora

Thomas Elsaesser, Lulu and the meter man, Pabst's Pandora's Box, in: Eric Rentschler, German Film & Literature, New York & London, 1986

Reviews

DP, Pandora's Box, in: Empire, nr. 211, 2007 pp. 56


Year: 1929
Country: Germany
 
IMDb: 0018737