📜 Overview:
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.
🌏 Languages Available:
German
📆 Date Released:
1932-06-28
⌚ Running Time:
87 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
6.0
Beloved Cast
Antinea
Brigitte Helm
Lt. Saint-Avit
Heinz Klingenberg
Capt. Morange
Gustav Diessl
Graf Bielowski
Vladimir Sokoloff
Tanid
Tela Tchaï
Clementine
Florelle
Ewar Torstenson
Mathias Wieman
Lt. Ferrieres
Georges Tourreil
Journalist
Gertrude Pabst
Rositta Severus-Liedernit
Marfa Kassatskaya
