Born in Raudnitz, Bohemia, in 1885 and died in Vienna in 1967, Georg Wilhelm Pabst was a leading figure of the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit), the realist, socially critical trend that followed German Expressionism. The Joyless Street (1925) showed hunger in inflation-ruined Vienna and gave Greta Garbo her first major role. With Pandora's Box and Diary of a Lost Girl (both 1929) he made a star of Louise Brooks. He also made the pacifist Westfront 1918 and Kameradschaft. His career in the Nazi era was compromised, and he made films in Germany during the war.
Filmography
- The Joyless Street (1925)
- Secrets of a Soul (1926)
- The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
- Pandora's Box (1929)
- Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
- Westfront 1918 (1930)
- Kameradschaft (1931)
- The Threepenny Opera (1931)
- Don Quixote (1933)
- The Last Ten Days (1955)