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The Young Woman of Scuderi (1955)
Directed by Eugen York
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...
Length 99 minutes
Actors
Henny Porten | Willy A. Kleinau | Anne Vernon | Angelika Hauff | Richard Häussler | Mathieu Ahlersmeyer | Alexander Engel | Hans-Peter Thielen | Johannes Arpe | Barbro Hiort af Ornäs | Gerd Frickhöffer | Käte Alving | Roland Alexandre | Alf Östlund | Karl Block | Egon Brosig | Hansjoachim Büttner | Wolf von Beneckendorff