5 Movies Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Pandora's Box

Pandora's Box

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1930-02-22

Languages:

German

Countries:

Germany

Runtime:

109 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

(6952 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Frank Wedekind (plays)

Ladislaus Vajda (scenario)

Fullplot:

Lulu is a beautiful young Jewish woman who can seemingly work her charms on all of the men around her. She is currently being kept by the rich financier Dr. Ludwig Schon. She is just a plaything however and he is engaged to be married to Charlotte, a woman of his own class. He arranges for Lulu to appear in his son Alwa's musical revue and he too falls for all of her charms. When Dr. Schon and his fiancèe go to the theater, Lulu ensures that he is put in a compromising situation and the elder Schon feels he now must marry her, knowing full well it will ruin his reputation. On his wedding day, Dr. Schon reaches his breaking. His actions cost him his life however and Lulu is convicted of manslaughter. She escapes with the help of her old cronies but together they begin a downward spiral.

Westfront 1918

Westfront 1918

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1930-05-23

Languages:

German

Countries:

Germany

Runtime:

75 min

Rated:

TV-PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (746 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Ernst Johannsen (novel)

Ladislaus Vajda (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.

The 3 Penny Opera

The 3 Penny Opera

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1956-10-19

Languages:

German

Countries:

Germany

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (1304 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Bertolt Brecht (text by)

Bèla Balèzs (adaptation)

Lèo Lania (adaptation)

Ladislaus Vajda (adaptation)

Fullplot:

In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the 'king of the beggars'.

Comradeship

Comradeship

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1931-11-17

Languages:

French, German

Countries:

Germany, France

Runtime:

93 min

Rated:

TV-14

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (641 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Peter Martin Lampel

Karl Otten

Gerbert Rappaport

Ladislaus Vajda

Lèon Werth (French dialogue)

Fullplot:

A old German mine was split in two after the end of WWI because of the new border. In the Frenchpart a fire breaks out. The German minwers send a rescue group in, helping their French comrades. A group of three old German miners, who where not treaten friendly at a French inn the night before, start their private rescue through an old way, where since 1919 the border is. After all survivors are rescued, there's a big party with speeches about friendship between Frensh and Germans, while border police closes the old way in the mine.

L'opèra de quat'sous

L'opèra de quat'sous

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1933-12-08

Languages:

French

Countries:

Germany, USA

Runtime:

104 min

IMDB Ratings:

(126 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Bèla Balèzs (adaptation)

Bertolt Brecht (play)

Lèo Lania (adaptation)

Andrè Mauprey (dialogue)

Ninon Steinhoff (adaptation)

Solange Tèrac (adaptation)

Ladislaus Vajda (adaptation)

Fullplot:

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