
After Dr. Friedrich's wife becomes mentally unstable and his research papers are rejected, he leaves the country to respite.

Axel Garde, Gerhart Hauptmann, Karl-Ludwig Schröder
Denmark

The year 1913 teetered on the lip of the twentieth-century’s howling maelstrom; cinema, still toddling in the shadow of theatre, suddenly flexed a new muscle—introspection. Out of that fragile moment crawls Atlantis, a film less interested in plot mechanics than in the phosphorescent wake left by a soul in mid-ruptur...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

August Blom

August Blom
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" The year 1913 teetered on the lip of the twentieth-century’s howling maelstrom; cinema, still toddling in the shadow of theatre, suddenly flexed a new muscle—introspection. Out of that fragile moment crawls Atlantis, a film less interested in plot mechanics than in the phosphorescent wake left by a soul in mid-rupture. Director Axel Garde, collaborating with Nobel laureate Gerhart Hauptmann on the intertitles, delivers a proto-modernist fever dream: part travelogue, part séance, part medical c..."

