Name: Silents at the Senate Presents: Pandora's Box (1929)
Start: 2025-03-22T20:00:00-04:00
Location: 6424 Michigan Ave, Detroit, MI, United States, Michigan 48210

Silents at the Senate Presents: Pandora's Box (1929)

Doors – 7:00 PM
Organ Overture – 7:30 PM
Film – 8:00 PM
Tickets - $6
2hr 13min | NR | Drama | USA
Live Organ Accompaniment by Andrew Rogers

Silents at the Senate begins its 2025 season with Pandora’s Box, a silent masterpiece from Austrian director G.W. Pabst, starring the American flapper icon Louise Brooks! Come see this impeccable example of pre-sound cinematic artistry, accompanied by organist Andrew Rogers on our Mighty Wurlitzer theater pipe organ!
Produced during the artistically vibrant Weimar Republic period in Germany, Pandora’s Box adapts two popular stage plays into a single tale of depravity, temptation, wrath and ruin. It’s melodrama at its finest, made on the eve of the sound era when the visual language of silent cinema reached its absolute peak.
And with the majesty of the world’s best instrument for silent film accompaniment enhancing the imagery and emotions, the awesome power of live sound and recorded vision—the original magic of the movies—cannot be denied.

The Senate Theater and The Detroit Theater Organ Society is supported by The Michigan Arts and Culture Council and The National Endowment for the Arts.

Parking is available in our gated lot, on Gilbert, and Michigan Avenue