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Die Büchse der Pandora (1929) More at IMDbPro »

• A 133-minute version, distributed by Janus Films from Film Museum München, was broadcast in America on the IFC channel in 2006. It has an unidentified orchestral score, including a 2-minute overture at the start, and it listed the credits in German, some of which were translated into English. All the spoken words in the intertitles were in German, with English translations right below them.
  
  
• Upon its initial release, the film was cut in numerous different ways to suit different countries:
  • In France, Alwa was not Schon's son but his secretary - a change which actually had the effect of implying a homosexual relationship between the two men.
  • In the United States, a third of the film was removed and a happy ending was tacked on. This ending - in which Lulu joins the Salvation Army - was so unconvincing that when the film played in New York, its distributors placed a disclaimer at the beginning, emphasizing that they were not responsible for the censorship forced upon them, and they apologized for what was termed "an added saccharine ending."
  • The film was restored in 1983, but the fact that it originally ran 130 minutes and the restored version is only 110 minutes means that some original footage may be lost forever.
  
  
  
• The original 131-minute version of "Pandora's Box" has been restored, and was released on a British Region 2 DVD (now out-of-print). The most complete version available in North America runs 110-minutes, which was restored in the part from the heavily censored 90-minute version originally released there.
  
  

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