Released:
1932-06-28

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.

Director:
G.W. Pabst

Runtime:
1h 27min

Genre:
Fantasy, Science Fiction

• 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