Queen of Atlantis
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.
Cast
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
