The Young Woman of Scuderi(1955)

🎬99 min
📅1955-07-28
🎭Drama, Crime

Overview

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...

Production

DEFA

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Cast

Henny Porten
as FrÀulein von Scuderi
Willy A. Kleinau
as Cardillac
Anne Vernon
as Madelon
Angelika Hauff
as St. Croix
Richard HĂ€ussler
as Miossens
Mathieu Ahlersmeyer
as Louis XIV
Alexander Engel
as La Regnie
Hans-Peter Thielen
as Degrais
Johannes Arpe
as Louvois
Barbro Hiort af OrnÀs
as La Matiniere

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