Georg Wilhelm Pabst QUEEN OF ATLANTIS Original press photograph from #144575

Description

Queen of Atlantis (Original press photograph from the 1932 film)
Author:
Georg Wilhelm Pabst (director); Pierre Benoit (novel); Alexandre Arnoux, Ladislaus Vajda, Jacques Deval, Miles Mander, Hermann Oberlander (screenwriters); Brigitte Helm, Pierre Blanchar, Heinz Klingenberg, John Stuart, Tela Tchai (starring)
Title:
Queen of Atlantis (Original press photograph from the 1932 film)
Publication:
Germany: Nero-Film AG, 1932
Description:
Vintage double weight press photograph of Brigitte Helm for the 1932 film. With holograph annotations on the verso.
Based on the 1919 novel "L'Atlantide" by French writer Pierre Benoit, and a remake of the 1921 film of the same name by Jacques Feyder. The film was shot in French, German, and English, each version starring Brigitte Helm as the Queen of Atlantis, a secret kingdom underneath the Sahara Desert. Two explorers discover Atlantis accidentally, only to find that the though the queen often takes lost men as lovers, she is quick to make mummies of them.
Shot on location in Algeria and Germany.
8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
Seller ID:
144575
Subject:
1930s Cinema, Actors, Fantasy, Film Still Photographs, Films with Literary Sources, French Cinema, German Cinema, Photographs, Press Photographs
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