

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...
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Cast

Henny Porten
Fräulein von Scuderi

Willy A. Kleinau
Cardillac

Anne Vernon
Madelon

Roland Alexandre
Olivier Brusson

Angelika Hauff
St. Croix

Richard Häussler
Miossens

Dorothea Wieck
Maintenon

Mathieu Ahlersmeyer
Louis XIV

Alexander Engel
La Regnie

Hans-Peter Thielen
Degrais

Johannes Arpe
Louvois

Barbro Hiort af Ornäs
La Matiniere
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