The Lady of Scuderi

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...

Country:

Germany,

East Germany

Genre:

Drama,

Crime

Duration:

99 minutes

Year:

1955

Director:

Eugen York

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Company:

DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme,

Pandora-Film Stockholm

Cast:
Henny Porten

Fräulein von Scuderi

Willy A. Kleinau

Cardillac

Anne Vernon

Madelon

Roland Alexandre

Olivier Brusson

Angelika Hauff

St. Croix

Crew:
Eugen York

Director

Alexander Stenbock-Fermor

Writer

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Story

Joachim Barckhausen

Writer

Hildegard Tegener

Editor