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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...Read moreLess
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...
The story
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...
Cast & crew
Henny PortenFräulein von Scuderi
Willy A. KleinauCardillac
Anne VernonMadelon
Roland AlexandreOlivier Brusson
Angelika HauffSt. Croix
Richard HäusslerMiossens
Dorothea WieckMaintenon
Mathieu AhlersmeyerLouis XIV
Alexander EngelLa Regnie
Hans-Peter ThielenDegrais
Johannes ArpeLouvois
Barbro Hiort af OrnäsLa MatiniereExplore the crew
- Director
- Eugen York
- Writer
- Joachim Barckhausen
- Editor
- Hildegard Tegener
- Original Music Composer
- Walter Sieber
- Director of Photography
- Eugen Klagemann