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.
Is it worth the time? If you have a thing for black-and-white atmosphere and don't mind when a movie moves at the speed of a tired camel, sure. It’s an oddity. If you need snappy dialogue or CGI spectacle, you’ll probably want to skip this and watch Fly Hi instead. The Sahara scenes feel genuinely hot. You can practic...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Charles Swickard
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"Is it worth the time? If you have a thing for black-and-white atmosphere and don't mind when a movie moves at the speed of a tired camel, sure. It’s an oddity. If you need snappy dialogue or CGI spectacle, you’ll probably want to skip this and watch Fly Hi instead. The Sahara scenes feel genuinely hot. You can practically taste the grit in the actors' teeth. Then the shift to the underground city happens and everything gets weirdly geometric and stagey. Brigitte Helm is doing a lot of heavy li..."
Mathias Wieman
Jacques Deval, Pierre Benoît, Ladislaus Vajda, Miles Mander, Alexandre Arnoux, Hermann Oberländer
Germany
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