Lulu (1978)
95 min
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.
- Release date
- May 5, 1978
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Michael Anderson as Prince Escerny
- Stephen Ashbrook as Walter
- Norma Leistiko as Countess Geschwitz
- Elisa Leonelli as Lulu
- Warren Pierce as Doctor Goll
- John Roberdeau as Alwa Schon
- Thomas Roberdeau as Jack the Ripper
- Paul Shenar as Ludwig Schon
- Winston Tong as Puppeteer
Crew
- Ronald Chase · Director
- Frank Wedekind · Writer
- Paul Patton · Producer
- Erik Wampler · Producer
- Ronald Chase · Cinematographer
- Todd Boekelheide · Editor
- Ronald Chase · Editor
- Bonnie Koehler · Editor
- Jay Miracle · Editor