Queen of Atlantis

Queen of Atlantis (1932)

FantasyScience Fiction

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.

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Writers: Ladislaus Vajda, Hermann Oberländer.

Casts

	Brigitte Helm as Antinea
	Heinz Klingenberg as Lt. Saint-Avit
	Gustav Diessl as Capt. Morange
	Vladimir Sokoloff as Graf Bielowski
	Tela Tchaï as Tanid
	Florelle as Clementine
	Mathias Wieman as Ewar Torstenson
	Georges Tourreil as Lt. Ferrieres
	Gertrude Pabst as Journalist
	Rositta Severus-Liedernit as
	Marfa Kassatskaya as

Crew