Pandora’s Box Unleashes a Universe of Male Oppression

Newly restored, G.W. Pabst’s 1929 film provides a bleak, unsettling account of a showgirl’s ruin at the greedy hands of competing male suitors.

Pandora’s Box Unleashes a Universe of Male Oppression
Pandora's Box, dir. G.W. Pabst, 1929 (all images courtesy Janus Films)