Lulu (1978)

Director: Ronald Chase

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.

Cast

Elisa Leonelli

Lulu

Paul Shenar

Ludwig Schon

Warren Pierce

Doctor Goll

Stephen Ashbrook

Walter

Norma Leistiko

Countess Geschwitz

Michael Anderson

Prince Escerny

Thomas Roberdeau

Jack the Ripper

Winston Tong

Puppeteer

John Roberdeau

Alwa Schon