THE MISTRESS OF ATLANTIS aka L' Atlantide (1932) Brigitte Helm & John Stuart | Romance | B&W

L'Atlantide is a 1932 German-French adventure and fantasy film directed by G. W. Pabst and starring Brigitte Helm. It is based on the novel L'Atlantide by Pierre Benoît.

SYNOPSIS
Two French Foreign Legionnaires are lost amid the shifting sands of the Sahara Desert when they stumble across the entrance to an underground world. Searching this new found subterranean passage, our heroes are surprised to find the lost city of Atlantis. Ruling over this fantastic underworld realm, an evil queen sets her sights upon these strangers to her kingdom.

CAST & CREW
Brigitte Helm as Antinea
John Stuart as Lt. Saint-Avit
Tela Tchaï [fr] as Tanit Serga
Gustav Diessl as Morhange
Gibb McLaughlin as Count Bielowsky
Mathias Wieman as Torstensen
Florelle as Clementine
Gertrude Pabst as Journaliste
Rositta Severus-Liedernit as Self

Directed by G. W. Pabst
Screenplay by Ladislaus Vajda, Hermann Oberländer
Based on Atlantida by Pierre Benoît
Produced by Seymour Nebenzahl, Romain Pinès
Cinematography Eugen Schüfftan, Joseph Barth
Edited by Hans Oser
Music by Wolfgang Zeller
Production companies Nero-Film AG Société Internationale Cinématographique
Release date 8 June 1932 (France)
Running time 90 minutes
Countries Germany, France

NOTES
The film is a remake of the 1921 film of the same name directed by Jacques Feyder. After Feyder refused to create a sound remake of L'Atlantide, Pabst took to directing the film. Both Pabst and Feyder's film adaptations were shot in the Sahara Desert. To compete with American films, the film was shot in three languages: English, French and German.

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