Pandora\'s Box (1929) CRITERION NTSC 2xDVD9 torrent

Description:
Die Büchse der Pandora, or Pandora's Box, is the story of a Lulu, a femme fatale whose innocent sexuality destroys the men around her.

CAST:
Louise Brooks .... Lulu
Fritz Kortner .... Dr. Peter Schön
Franz Lederer .... Alwa Schön
Carl Goetz .... Schigolch
Krafft-Raschig .... Rodrigo Quast
Alice Roberts .... Countess Anna Geschwitz
Gustav Diessl .... Jack the Ripper
rest of cast listed alphabetically
Sig Arno .... Instructor (uncredited)
Daisy D'Ora .... Charlotte M.A. von Zanik (uncredited)
Michael von Newlinsky .... Marquis Casti-Piani (uncredited)

CREDITS:
Studio: Nero-Film
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst (imdb)
Writing Credits: Screenplay by Ladislaus Vajda, adapted from the plays Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora by Frank Wedekind
Format: Silent - black & white
Cinematography: Günther Krampf
Editor: Joseph R. Fliesler
Art direction: Andrei Andreiev
Costumes: Gottlieb Hesch
Production dates: October 17 - November 23, 1928
Running Time: 9 reels
Release Date: January 30, 1929
Country of Origin: Germany

Disc Features

SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET:

* New, restored high-definition digital transfer of the definitive Munich
Film Museum restoration
* Four musical scores, each offering its own interpretation of the film
* Audio commentary by film scholars Thomas Elsaesser and Mary Ann Doane
* Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu (1998), a 60-minute documentary
by Hugh Munro Neeley
* Lulu in Berlin (1971), a rare, 48-minute interview with Louise Brooks
by vérité documentarian Richard Leacock and Susan Steinberg Woll
* New video interviews with Leacock, about Brooks, and Michael
Pabstm the director’s son
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* Stills gallery
* PLUS: A book featuring Kenneth Tynan’s 1979 essay “The Girl
in the Black Helmet,” an article by Louise Brooks on her
relationship with Pabst, and a new essay by critic J. Hoberman



IMDB-link......: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018737/

Year.............: 1929
Country..........: Germany
Audio............: Silent with 4 musical scores - main with 5.1 option., rest all 2.0
Subtitles........: German intertitles - subs- English, None
Video Format.....: 1.18:1 Aspect Ratio
DVD Source.......: 2X DVD9
DVD Format.......: NTSC
DVD distributor..: http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=358
Program..........: DVD>TOAST>DISK UTILITY>.ISO>xACT>MD5
Bit Rate.........: Average Bitrate: 7.34 mb/s


Menus..........: [X] Untouched, intact.
[ ] Stripped

Video..........: [X] Untouched, intact.
[ ] Re-encoded

DVD-extras.....: [X] Untouched, intact.
[ ] Stripped
[ ] Re-encoded
[ ] None

DVD-Audio......: [X] Untouched, intact.
[ ] Stripped tracks


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