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Pandora's Box (1929)

Name: Pandora's Box
Genre: Classic Drama
Released: 1929
Duration: 2 h 9 min
Cast: Francis Lederer, Fritz Kortner, Karl Etlinger, Gustav Diessl, Daisy D'ora

1929130 minClassic Drama✓ Verified rightsSilent · CC0 piano score

Pandora's Box (1929) is a 130-minute classic film that airs free on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures (CH 12) channel. It is a silent film, presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score. It is in the U.S. public domain. Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst.

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About Pandora's Box (1929)

Pandora's Box (German: Die Büchse der Pandora) is a 1929 German silent melodrama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, and starring Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, and Francis Lederer. The film follows Lulu, a seductive young woman whose uninhibited nature brings ruin to herself and those who love her.

The film is divided into eight acts plus an overture. Lulu is the mistress of a respected, middle-aged newspaper publisher, Dr. Ludwig Schön. One day, she is delighted when an old man, her "first patron", Schigolch, shows up at the door to her highly contemporary apartment. However, when Schön also arrives, she makes Schigolch hide on the balcony. Schön breaks the news to Lulu that he is going to marry Charlotte von Zarnikow, the daughter of the Minister of the Interior.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Pandora's Box (1929 film) (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Cast includes: Francis Lederer, Fritz Kortner, Karl Etlinger, Gustav Diessl, Daisy D'ora, Sig Arno, Louise Brooks, Alice Roberts
Country: Germany
Based on: Pandora's Box

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Silent Pictures - CH 12, Silent Film TV

Rights & source

Basis: Published before 1931 - U.S. copyright term expired
Evidence: First published 1929 (before 1931): US copyright term has expired.
Music: Silent film: this copy has an added soundtrack of unknown origin, so original audio is MUTED and a CC0 (Musopen) piano bed is played instead.
Underlying rights: Silent (German).
Source: Internet Archive

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