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Overview
La Chambre ardente is a French horror film first released in 1962,
directed by Julien Duvivier.
The film stars Jean-Claude Brialy, Claude Rich, Edith Scob, Perrette Pradier and Nadja Tiller.
It has also been released under the title: The Burning Court.
Our overall rating for this film is: good.
Synopsis
Mathias Desgrez is a sick man who lives alone in his castle in the
Black Forest, attended to by his personal nurse Myra Schneider.
He asks his two nephews, Marc and Stéphane, to spend the summer
with him. These two are surprised when they learn that the
journalist Michel Boissard and his wife Marie have also been
invited. Mathias is the last descendant of the policeman who
arrested the Marquise de Brinvilliers, who was responsible for many
cases of poisoning during the reign of Louis XIV. Marie was
invited by Mathias because she is the last descendent of the
Brinvilliers family. One night, whilst a masked ball is in full
swing, Mathias is killed. According to the housekeeper, Madame
Henderson, he was poisoned – by a woman wearing 17th Century apparel...
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