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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Alwa Schön
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Jack the Ripper
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Marquis Casti-Piani
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Der inspizient - the Stage Manager
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Lulu is a beautiful young woman who can seemingly work her charms on all of the men around her. She is currently being kept by the rich editor Dr. Ludwig Schön. 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. Schön and his fiancée go to the theater, Lulu ensures that he is put in a compromising situation and the elder Schön feels he now must marry her, knowing full well it will ruin his reputation. On his wedding day, Dr. Schön reaches his breaking point. 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. Written by garykmcd
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Country:
GermanyLanguage:
GermanRelease Date:
22 February 1930 (Japan) See more »Also Known As:
Lulu See more »Filming Locations:
Nero-Film Studio, Berlin, GermanyBox Office
Opening Weekend:
$9,950 (USA) (16 June 2006)Gross:
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(restored) | (Copy with French titles at Brussels Musée du Cinéma) | (original) | (VHS)Sound Mix:
SilentColor:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1
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This marked the first of three films produced in Europe for Louise Brooks. Brooks remarked that she much preferred her European films because she felt they challenged her as an artist, but she also admitted that the European films proved more exhausting than those filmed in Hollywood. See more »Goofs
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This feature has quite an unusual feel to it - generally downbeat, but engrossing, and filled with sordid characters and settings, yet somehow artistic. Moreover, it's not downbeat or sordid in the pretentious, empty way that characterizes so many recent movies. Rather, despite portraying its characters in a largely unfavorable light, it neither exploits them nor glorifies them. These persons are shown simply to be what they are, and while there is a certain inevitability about many of the things that befall them, there is a thoughtfulness as well. You would not want to be like, or perhaps even meet, most of these characters, and yet you want to wish them better luck.
Louise Brooks gets most of the attention (both in the movie itself and from those who discuss it). The "Pandora's Box" image for her character is appropriate, in that Lulu is never ill-intentioned nor malicious, and yet she often puts the other characters in difficult situations, just by being who she is and acting naturally. All of the other significant characters are defined largely in terms of their responses to her and relationships with her, and all of the characters (including Lulu) have very evident faults and make some very preventable blunders. The result is an unusual and very interesting movie. Director G.W. Pabst deserves the credit most of all for creating the atmosphere, putting everything together, and making it work so well.