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.

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  Brigitte HelmAntinea
• Heinz KlingenbergHeinz Klingenberg — artwork unavailable
  Heinz KlingenbergLt. Saint-Avit
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  Gustav DiesslCapt. Morange
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  Vladimir SokoloffGraf Bielowski
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  Tela TchaïTanid
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  FlorelleClementine
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  Mathias WiemanEwar Torstenson
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  Georges TourreilLt. Ferrieres
• Gertrude PabstGertrude Pabst — artwork unavailable
  Gertrude PabstJournalist
• Rositta Severus-LiedernitRositta Severus-Liedernit — artwork unavailable
  Rositta Severus-Liedernit