Queen of Atlantis

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.

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Cast

Brigitte Helm

Antinea

Heinz Klingenberg

Lt. Saint-Avit

Gustav Diessl

Capt. Morange

Vladimir Sokoloff

Graf Bielowski

Tela Tchaï

Tanid

Florelle

Clementine

Mathias Wieman

Ewar Torstenson

Georges Tourreil

Lt. Ferrieres

Gertrude Pabst

Journalist

Rositta Severus-Liedernit