The Lady of Scuderi
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Several men have been murdered lately, mostly rich lovers on their way to meet their mistresses with gifts of fine jewelry. To fight this scourge, King Louis XIV decides to create a special court named "La chambre ardente", designed to find and punish the perpetrators of such heinous crimes. An unexpected person, Mademoiselle de Scudéry, the famous poetess, will find herself entangled in the web of a criminal intrigue linked with the jewel murders, along with a a goldsmith, his daughter and her fiancé...
Status: Released
Released Date: 1955-07-28
Runtime: 99 mins
Director: Eugen York
Writer: Alexander Stenbock-Fermor, Joachim Barckhausen
Spoken language: Deutsch
Genres: Drama, Crime
Original title: The Lady of Scuderi
Production Companies: DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme, Pandora-Film Stockholm
Production Countries: Germany, East Germany
Cast
Henny Porten
Willy A. Kleinau
Anne Vernon
Roland Alexandre
Angelika Hauff
Richard Häussler
Dorothea Wieck
Mathieu Ahlersmeyer
Alexander Engel
Hans-Peter Thielen
Johannes Arpe
Barbro Hiort af Ornäs
Gerd Frickhöffer
Käte Alving
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