Pandora's Box Blu-ray

Runtime: 133 min

Director: G.W. Pabst

Cast: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz, Krafft-Raschig

Studios: Nero-Film AG

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.

Special Features:

New 2K digital restoration

Four musical scores

by Gillian Anderson, Dimitar Pentchev, Peer Raben, and Stéphane Oliva.

Audio commentary

by film scholars Thomas Elsaesser and Mary Ann Doane.

Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu (1998)

a documentary by Hugh Munro Neely.

Lulu in Berlin (1971)

a rare interview with actor Louise Brooks, by Richard Leacock and Susan Steinberg Woll.

Interviews

with Leacock and Michael Pabst, director G. W. Pabst’s son.

PLUS:

An essay by critic J. Hoberman, notes on the scores, Kenneth Tynan’s 1979 “The Girl in the Black Helmet,” and an article by Brooks on her relationship with Pabst.

Technical Specifications:

• High-definition video and audio
• 2K digital restoration
• 141 minutes
• Black & White
• Silent
• German intertitles with optional English subtitles
• 1.33:1 aspect ratio