

Two young officers, Saint-Avit and Morhange, get lost in the desert and find themselves prisoners of the beautiful AntinĂ©a, 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 LâAtlantide, Pabst offers a psychoanalytic reading of Benoitâs novel, with a dominant female figure who enslaves her lovers before destroying them. The filmâs fantasy dimension is disturbing, LâAtlantide 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 AntinĂ©a, born from the marriage between ClĂ©mentine, 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.
Writers
Hermann OberlÀnder, Ladislaus Vajda
Language
German
Country
Germany, France







