Lulu

May 5, 1978

1h 35m

★ 0.0

Overview

This highly stylized, critically acclaimed film from the 70's mixes silent film cards, a soundscape, color, opera music and atmosphere to explore the Freudian truths about men's fear of women that Wedekind powerfully exposed. A kinetic melodrama of the rise of a femme-fatale and her fate at the hands of Jack-the-Ripper. Rethinking Pabst's silent film and Alban Berg's opera.

Genres

Drama

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Cast

Lulu

Elisa Leonelli

Ludwig Schon

Paul Shenar

Doctor Goll

Warren Pierce

Walter

Stephen Ashbrook

Countess Geschwitz

Norma Leistiko

Prince Escerny

Michael Anderson

Jack the Ripper

Thomas Roberdeau

Puppeteer

Winston Tong

Alwa Schon

John Roberdeau

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