Release Date

28 Jun, 1932

Runtime

01:27: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Two young officers, Saint-Avit and Morhange, get lost in the desert and find themselves prisoners of the beautiful Antinéa, queen of the city of Atlantis. Saint-Avit, blinded by his love for her, obeys her when she orders him to kill his comrade... With L’Atlantide, Pabst offers a psychoanalytic reading of Benoit’s novel, with a dominant female figure who enslaves her lovers before destroying them. The film’s fantasy dimension is disturbing, L’Atlantide bathes in a humid nightmare atmosphere, between the desperate search for a missing friend and the apparitions of an underworld lost in the desert. A long, discursive flashback suggests the Parisian origins of Antinéa, born from the marriage between Clémentine, a pretty, light-thighed French Cancan dancer, and an Arab prince seduced during a theatrical performance. But again, it's impossible to know whether these are the ramblings of an old alcoholic or the strange truth.

Original Title

Die Herrin von Atlantis

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Actors

Brigitte Helm

Heinz Klingenberg

Gustav Diessl

Vladimir Sokoloff

Tela Tchaï

Florelle

Mathias Wieman

Georges Tourreil

Gertrude Pabst

Rositta Severus-Liedernit

Martha von Konssatzki

Crew

G.W. Pabst

Alexandre Arnoux

Pierre Benoît

Jacques Deval

Miles Mander

Hermann Oberländer

Ladislaus Vajda

Romain Pinès

Wolfgang Zeller

Ernst Körner

Eugen Schüfftan

Jean Oser

Marc Sorkin

Max Pretzfelder