PANDORA'S LEGACY

PANDORA’S LEGACY is a journey through the family universe of GW Pabst,giant of early German cinema. His films explore the radical transformations takingplace in the roles of men and women, set against reactionary models. GWPabst’s private and artistic partner on this voyage is Trude Pabst. She noted herdreams, thoughts and experiences on thousands of loose sheets of paper, nowshared with an audience for the first time in this film.Trude and Georg Wilhelm share an extraordinary love. But as head of the family,GW is a patriarch who wants to dictate the course of his wife’s life. The exchangeof letters between the lovers bears witness to the conflicting standardsof the 1920s, reflected in GW Pabst’s films and also in the couple’s relationship.A wide-ranging area of tension is revealed, encompassing deep spiritual kinship,conflicts about parenthood, body images and eroticism, chauvinism and rebellionagainst it.A film about dreams, trauma and why we are who we are.