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.
Crew
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G.W. Pabst
Director
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Pierre Benoît
Novel
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Ladislaus Vajda
Screenplay
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Marc Sorkin
Editor
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Jacques Deval
Dialogue
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Miles Mander
Dialogue
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Eugen Schüfftan
Director of Photography
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Wolfgang Zeller
Original Music Composer
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Ernö Metzner
Art Direction
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Jean Oser
Editor
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Paul Dannenberg
Makeup Artist
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Hermann Oberländer
Screenplay
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Alexandre Arnoux
Adaptation
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Ernst Körner
Director of Photography
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Seymour Nebenzal
Producer
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Romain Pinès
Producer
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Pierre Ichac
Art Direction
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Max Pretzfelder
Costume Design
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