The Lady of Scuderi

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The Lady of Scuderi

1955

1h 39m

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Crime

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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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41 members

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Henny Porten

Fräulein von Scuderi

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Willy A. Kleinau

Cardillac

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Anne Vernon

Madelon

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Roland Alexandre

Olivier Brusson

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Angelika Hauff

St. Croix

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Richard Häussler

Miossens

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Dorothea Wieck

Maintenon

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Mathieu Ahlersmeyer

Louis XIV

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Alexander Engel

La Regnie

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Hans-Peter Thielen

Degrais

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Johannes Arpe

Louvois

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Barbro Hiort af Ornäs

La Matiniere

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Gerd Frickhöffer

De la Fare

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Käte Alving

Nanette

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Alf Östlund

Theaterdirektor

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Karl Block

Ganove

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Egon Brosig

Haushofmeister

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Hans-Joachim Büttner

Bruder Menardus

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Wolf von Beneckendorff

Der Mickrige

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Charlotte Brummerhoff

Hofdame

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Georg Helge

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Hella Jansen

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Heinz Kammer

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Inge Kanzler

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Hannelore Lottis

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Mario Lerch

Tenor Colani

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Karin Luesebrink

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Martin Rosen

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Kurt Rackelmann

Clochard

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Elisabeth Süssenguth

Canton

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Paul Streckfuß

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Ruth Scheerbarth

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Rudolf Schröder

Baptiste

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Axel Triebel

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Rolf Weih

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Hans Wehrl

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Maria Wendt

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Heinz Keuneke

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Günter Klostermann

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Jean Brahn

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Bruno Atlas-Eising

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