G. W. Pabst

Georg Wilhelm Pabst was born in 1885 in Raudnitz, in Bohemia, the son of a railway official, and grew up in Vienna. An actor in Switzerland, then a stage director at the German theatre in New York from 1910, he was interned in France during the war. He came to cinema through Carl Froelich and made his first film in 1923. In 1933 he was in France, then made a film in Hollywood and returned to France. Caught in Austria by the war in 1939, when he had intended to leave for the United States, he worked under the Nazi regime. He died in Vienna in 1967.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaDiary of a Lost GirlDas Tagebuch einer VerlorenenG. W. Pabst · 1929Cinema
• CinemaPandora's BoxDie Büchse der PandoraG. W. Pabst · 1929Cinema