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Pandora's Box

1929 · 141 min

A hypnotic, doom-laden silent descent, watching a magnetic woman drift from drawing rooms to squalor with fatal inevitability.

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

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • fate
  • sexuality
  • obsession
  • betrayal
  • death
Places
  • big city
  • sea
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror4
Humour2
Realism7
Romance5
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama, crime, romance
Directed by
G.W. Pabst
Written by
Joseph Fleisler, G.W. Pabst, Ladislaus Vajda
Starring
Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz, Krafft-Raschig, Alice Roberts, Daisy D'Ora, Gustav Diessl
Cinematography
Günther Krampf
Runtime
141 min
Country
Germany
Languages
No Language

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