G.W. PabstFilmography

Born:: August 27, 1885 in Raudnitz, Bohemia (Czechoslovakia)
Occupation:: Director
Birth name:: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Biography:: Born in Bohemia to Viennese parents, director G. W. Pabst made only one American film in his career, yet became the darling of U.S. critics and movie historians for a handful of brilliant silent works. Pabst studied at Vienna's Academy of Decorate Arts, then embarked on a theatrical career in...Read More

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Ballerina

Crew: Director

Actors: Willy Birgel, Ivan Desny, Eva Kerbler

1956
Es Geschah Am 20. Juli

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Two films concerning the July 20, 1944 plot to kill Adolph Hitler were released in Germany within the same week. The second to arrive on the scene was G. W. Pabst's Es Gescham am 20 Juli. Actor/director Bernhard Wicki heads the cast as Oberst Graf Von Staufenberg, the prime mover of the Read More

1955
Der Letzte Akt

Crew: Director

Actors: Albin Skoda, Lotte Tobisch, Oskar Werner, Hermann Erhardt

Synopsis: Originally Der Letzte Akt, The Last Ten Days has also been released to English speaking countries as Hitler: The Last Ten Days and The Last Ten Days of Adolf Hitler. This should establish for good and all the subject matter of this film. Albin Skoda plays Hitler, who wanders in and out of delirium Read More

1955
Das Bekenntnis Der Ina Kahr

Crew: Director

1954
La Voce Del Silenzio

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: La Voca del Silenzio (Voice of Silence) was the only Italian production of fabled German director G. W. Pabst. Based on a concept by neorealism specialist Cesar Zavattini (fleshed out by a team of =12= prominent writers, including Pabst himself and Jean Cocteau), the film follows a small group of Read More

1953
Der Prozess

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Ewald Balser, Ernst Deutsch, Albert Truby, Heinz Moog, Maria Eis, Gustav Diessl

Synopsis: Though the title of this German historical drama translates as The Trial, it bears no relation to the Franz Kafka novel of the same name. Instead, the film is based on a true story which took place in 19th century Hungary. When a young peasant girl commits suicide, the superstitious villagers Read More

1948
Paracelsus

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This German only video tells the story of Paracelsus nefarious activities after quarantining the city of Basel from the plague and using unusual means of healing, saves a man. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1943
Komodianten

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German melodrama starring Kathe Dorsch and silent screen legend Henny Porten. When Philine (Hilde Krahl), the troupe's ingénue, is rejected as proper marital Read More

1941
Jeunes Filles En Detresse

Crew: Director

Actors: Marcelle Chantal, Micheline Presle, André Luguet, Robert Pizani

Synopsis: Jeune Filles en Detresse (Young Girls in Distress) was director G. W. Pabst's last French production before his (ill-timed) return to Nazi-occupied Austria in 1941. Somewhat reminiscent of Maedchen in Uniform, the story is set in a private girl's school, populated almost exclusively by children Read More

1939
Le Drame de Shanghai

Crew: Director

Actors: Christiane Mardayne, Elina Labourdette, Raymond Rouleau, Louis Jouvet, Dorville, My Linh-Nam, Valery Inkijinoff

Synopsis: Shanghai Drama was originally released in France in 1938 under the title Le Drame de Shanghai. Director G. W. Pabst, best known for the erotic classics Diary of a Lost Girl and Pandora's Box, seems artistically subdued in this standard tale of pre-WW2 intrigue. The villains are the Japanese, who Read More

1938
Mademoiselle Docteur

Crew: Director

Actors: Dita Parlo, Viviane Romance, Pierre Blanchar, Pierre Fresnay, Louis Jouvet, Charles Dullin

1936
A Modern Hero

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Jean Muir, Marjorie Rambeau, Veree Teasdale, Florence Eldridge

Synopsis: Produced by Warner Bros. in 1934, A Modern Hero was the only American talkie directed by the great German filmmaker G. W. Pabst. Richard Barthelmess plays Pierre, the bastard son of blowzy, besotted circus performer Mme. Azais (Marjorie Rambeau). Fiercely ambitious, Pierre enters the world of Read More

1934
Don Quixote

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Feodor Chaliapin, Sr., George Robey, Oscar Asche, Emily Fitzroy

Synopsis: The French/British Don Quixote is a faithful rendition of the Cervantes novel, with a poignant ending added by director G.W. Pabst. Opera star Feodor Chaliapin stars as Cervantes' "Knight of the Woeful Countenance," an aged, addled Spanish gentleman so devoted to stories of long-ago chivalry that Read More

1933
Du Haut en Bas

Crew: Director

Actors: Janine Crispin, Milly Mathis, Jean Gabin, Mauricet

Synopsis: This comedy of manners, set within a Viennese community, centers upon an uneducated soccer player who ends up being tutored by an unemployed teacher. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1933
L'Atlantide

Crew: Director

Actors: Brigitte Helm, Pierre Blanchar, Jean Angelo, Georges Tourreil

Synopsis: Also known as Die Herrin von Atlantis, this expansive G. W. Pabst production is a remake of the 1921 Jacques Feyder film of the same name. Like the earlier film, the remake was largely shot in the Sahara Desert and cost a fortune to put together. Based on the best-selling novel by Pierre Benoit Read More

1932
The Mistress of Atlantis

Crew: Director

Actors: Brigitte Helm

Synopsis: In this mythical fantasy, the evil queen of Atlantis lives in a magnificent palace, the halls of which are filled with the mummified remains of former lovers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1932
Kameradschaft

Crew: Director

Actors: Ernst Busch, Andrée Ducret, Georges Charlia, Helena Manson, Alexander Granach, Elisabeth Wendt, Daniel Mandaille, Fritz Kampers

Synopsis: Kameradschaft is set in a mining community on the French/German frontier, where several French miners are trapped in a cave-in. Their only hope for rescue lies in a long-abandoned underground tunnel, buried since the First World War. Ignoring the ethnic and political differences that have long Read More

1931
The Threepenny Opera

Crew: Director

Actors: Rudolf Forster, Margo Lion, Carola Neher, Albert Prejean, Lotte Lenya, Gaston Modot, Ernst Busch, Valeska Gert, Fritz Rasp

Synopsis: Filmmaker G.W. Pabst's adaptation of Bertoldt Brecht and Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera (Die Dreisgoschenoper) is every bit as good as the stage original, and sometimes even better. Filmed in both German and French versions with different casts (a planned English-language version was abandoned), Threepenny Read More

1931
Skandal Um Eva

Crew: Director

Actors: Adele Sandrock, Paul Henckels, Karl Ettlinger, Ludwig Stossel, Oska Sima

Synopsis: After completing his searing antiwar drama Westfront 1918, director G. W. Pabst shifted gears with the romantic seriocomedy Skandal um Eva (Scandalous Eva). Upon learning that her fiancee, the Minister of Finance, has fathered a child, schoolteacher Eva (Adele Sandrock) brings the kid to her home Read More

1930
Westfront 1918

Crew: Director

Actors: Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessl, Hans Joachim Moebis, Claus Clausen

Synopsis: Westfront 1918 (aka Comrades of 1918) was the first talkie effort from German filmmaker G. W. Pabst, which he made for Nero Films, a production company headed up by Seymour Nebenzahl. Like the contemporary Hollywood production All Quiet on the Western Front, Pabst's film is a bitter, melancholy Read More

1930
The White Hell of Pitz Palu

Crew: Director

Actors: Leni Riefenstahl, Ernst Petersen, Gustav Diessl, Mitzi Gotzel, Christian Klucker

Synopsis: After his wife falls to her death in a glacier crevasse, Dr. Johannes Krafft (Gustav Diessl) wanders alone through the Bernina Alps and becomes known as the legendary "Spirit of the Mountain." He encounters Maria Majoni (Leni Riefenstahl) and Hans Brandt (Ernst Petersen) in a mountain shelter, and Read More

1929
Pandora's Box

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Alice Roberts

Synopsis: German filmmaker G.W. Pabst's late-silent classic Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) stars the hauntingly beautiful Louise Brooks as libertine dancer Lulu. Ever out for the "main chance," Lulu persuades her wealthy lover Dr. Schön (Fritz Kortner) to marry her. But in a fit of jealous rage, he Read More

1929
Diary of a Lost Girl

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Louise Brooks, Fritz Rasp, André Roanne, Josef Ravensky, Franziska Kinz

Synopsis: German filmmaker G.W. Pabst and Hollywood expatriate Louise Brooks re-team after the success of Pandora's Box for the silent film Diary of a Lost Girl. On the day of her confirmation, innocent young Thymiane Henning (Brooks) is given a lockable diary as a present. She's distraught because the Read More

1929
Abwege

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This G.W. Pabst production was know by many titles, both in Europe (where it was alternately released as Abwege and Begierde) and the U.S. (where it was shipped out as Byways, Crisis and Desire). Brigitte Helm, of Metropolis fame, stars as Irene, the wife of self-absorbed Robert (Gustav Diessl). Read More

1928
The Love of Jeanne Ney

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Before plunging headlong into the Freudian sexuality of Pandora's Box, German filmmaker G. W. Pabst offered the impressionistic social document Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney (The Love of Jeanne Ney). Based on a sturm-und-drang story by Ilya Ehrenberg, the film travels from the Crimea to Paris and back Read More

1927
Man Spielt Nicht Mit Der Liebe

Crew: Director

1926
Geheimnisse einer Seele

Crew: Director

Actors: Werner Krauss, Ruth Weyher

Synopsis: With a brilliant tip of the hat to Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, German filmmaker G.W. Pabst offers Secrets of a Soul, a convoluted tale of a chemistry professor (Caligari's Werner Krauss) haunted by inexplicable resentments. The professor doesn't really dislike his wife's cousin, who is returning Read More

1925
Die Freudlose Gasse

Crew: Director

Actors: Asta Nielsen, Greta Garbo, Valeska Gert, Werner Krauss, Einar Hansen

Synopsis: G. W. Pabst's The Joyless Street (Die freudlose Gasse) is an unvarnished study of post-World War I Vienna. Plagued with skyrocketing inflation, the Austrian metropolis becomes the domain of every scurrilous form of profiteering. The central character is a crooked butcher, whose negative influence Read More

1925
Der Schatz

Crew: Director

Actors: Albert Steinruck, Lucie Mannheim, Hans Brausewetter, Werner Krauss

Synopsis: The Treasure (Der Schatz), G. W. Pabst's first film, wasn't released in the U.S. until 1929, six years after its completion. On the surface a straightforward tale of the search for a buried treasure, the film is a textbook example of German expressionism, with the passions of the protagonists Read More

1923