Pabst

/ paːpst /

noun

1. G ( eorge ) W ( ilhelm ). 1885–1967, German film director, whose films include Joyless Street (1925), Pandora's Box (1929), and The Last Act (1954)

Example Sentences

In his acknowledgments, Kehlmann says the novel was “largely inspired by the life stories of the historical G.W. Pabst and his family.”

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Among his inventions is a Pabst son, Jakob, an aspiring artist turned Hitler Youth member — someone whose perceptions, once astute, are polluted by circumstances.

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The same can be said of Pabst himself, whose monomaniacal devotion to his art inclines him to ugly compromises.

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Strangers confuse him with another Austrian-born director, Fritz Lang, and Pabst’s American movie, “A Modern Hero,” fashioned from a script he loathes, is a flop.

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The Pabst family is caught in a real-life horror movie from which escape proves difficult.

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