Louise Brooks’s European sojourn paired her with the
renowned director G. W. Pabst, with whom she’d perform in two of her most
memorable roles. In Pandora’s Box, she’s the seductress Lulu, wrecker of the lives of everyone who falls in love with
her, of both sexes.
The countess, Augusta Geschwitz, as played by Alice Roberts, is a very interesting character in the
film. Though openly and visibly a lesbian, this fact is not singled out as unusual or of any importance at all. The
other characters acknowledge her sexuality, but it never once enters into the plot. It’s a very modern treatment of a
lesbian character, for the time and even now.
Today’s lesbian feature silent: