Pabst's adaptation of the Pierre Benoit novel-the story of the search for Atlantis in the midst of what is now the Sahara-is far rarer, and far odder, than the better-known silent version by Jacques Feyder. Lieutenant de Saint-Avit tells his tale of a city peopled by a strange race, the meeting of a dapper Parisian friend therein, and the mysterious, goddess-like creature Antinéa (Brigitte Helm) who reigns over the land. The film was shot partly in North Africa, but like von Sternberg's "locations," it offers a highly artificial world, at once sensual and dazzling, yet coolly filmed through a scrim of social and psychological observation. Pabst's last film before the Nazis came to power was an international affair filmed in three languages-German, French, and English-each with slightly different casts. We present the English version.