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...
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
Hans-Joachim Büttner
Wolf von Beneckendorff
Dorothea Wieck
Charlotte Brummerhoff
Georg Helge
Hella Jansen
Heinz Kammer
Inge Kanzler
Hannelore Lottis
Mario Lerch
Karin Luesebrink
Martin Rosen
Kurt Rackelmann
Elisabeth Süssenguth
Paul Streckfuß
Ruth Scheerbarth
Rudolf Schröder
Axel Triebel
Rolf Weih
Hans Wehrl
Maria Wendt
Heinz Keuneke
Günter Klostermann
Jean Brahn
Bruno Atlas-Eising