Assignment task: Please answer the following 2 questions.
In the German film Pandora's BoxLinks to an external site. (George Wilhelm Pabst, 1929, 2h, 11m) and the Mexican film Woman of the Port. (La Mujer del Puerto (1933, Arcady Boytler, 1h, 16m), the main character in each resorts to prostitution. Compare and contrast the depictions of Lulu in Pandora's Box and Rosario in Woman of the Port in terms of:
Why they resorted to prostitution
What this can tell us about women's place in society at the time