Pabst, G(eorg) W(ilhelm)

Pabst, G(eorg) W(ilhelm)
born Aug. 27, 1885, Raudnice, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary
died May 29, 1967, Vienna, Austria

German film director.

He toured Europe as an actor from age 20 and was directing plays by 1912. He later directed films in Berlin, beginning with The Treasure (1923) and continuing with The Joyless Street (1925), Secrets of a Soul (1926), and The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927). His masterpieces, Pandora's Box (1929) and Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), both starred Louise Brooks. Later films include Kameradschaft (1931) and The Threepenny Opera (1931). He moved to France in 1933 and to Austria after World War II. His films were among the most artistically successful of the 1920s, marked by social and political concerns and deep psychological insight.

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