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.
If you have eighty minutes to spare and a soft spot for weird, dusty fantasy films from the early sound era, The Mistress of Atlantis is absolutely worth your time. But if you cannot stand crackly audio and guys in wool uniforms sweating profusely in the desert, you should probably skip this one. 🏜️ The setup is incr...
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst
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"If you have eighty minutes to spare and a soft spot for weird, dusty fantasy films from the early sound era, The Mistress of Atlantis is absolutely worth your time. But if you cannot stand crackly audio and guys in wool uniforms sweating profusely in the desert, you should probably skip this one. 🏜️ The setup is incredibly simple. Two French Foreign Legion officers get hopelessly lost in the Sahara and stumble into a secret subterranean kingdom ruled by a very cold queen. It sounds like a cla..."
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