1955
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1h 39m
Genres
Drama
Crime
Production Companies
DEFA
The Young Woman of Scuderi (Das Fräulein von Scuderi)
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...
Key Crew
Director: Eugen York
Writer: Joachim Barckhausen, Alexander Stenbock-Fermor
Story: E. T. A. Hoffmann
Director of Photography: Eugen Klagemann
Top Cast
Henny Porten
Fräulein von Scuderi
Willy A. Kleinau
Cardillac
Anne Vernon
Madelon
Angelika Hauff
St. Croix
Richard Häussler
Miossens
Mathieu Ahlersmeyer
Louis XIV
Alexander Engel
La Regnie
Hans-Peter Thielen
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