Queen of Atlantis (1932)
Movie
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.
Directed By : G.W. Pabst
Genres : Fantasy, Science Fiction
Status : Released
Released : Jun 28, 1932
Length : 87 minutes
Cast
Crew
- Director : G.W. Pabst
- Adaptation : Alexandre Arnoux
- Novel : Pierre Benoît
- Dialogue : Jacques Deval
- Dialogue : Miles Mander
- Screenplay : Hermann Oberländer
- Screenplay : Ladislaus Vajda
- Producer : Romain Pinès
- Original Music Composer : Wolfgang Zeller
- Director of Photography : Ernst Körner
- Director of Photography : Eugen Schüfftan
- Editor : Jean Oser
- Editor : Marc Sorkin
- Costume Design : Max Pretzfelder
- Producer : Seymour Nebenzal
- Art Direction : Ernö Metzner
- Art Direction : Pierre Ichac
- Makeup Artist : Paul Dannenberg