La Chambre ardente / The Burning Court / Julien Duvivier

La Chambre ardente

1962 Drama / Horror / Thriller

Credits

Director: Julien Duvivier
Script: John Dickson Carr, Julien Duvivier, Charles Spaak
Photo: Roger Fellous
Music: Georges Auric
Cast: Jean-Claude Brialy (Marc Desgrez), Claude Rich (Stephan Desgrez), Edith Scob (Marie D’Aubray Boissand), Perrette Pradier (Lucie Desgrez), Nadja Tiller (Nurse Myra Schneider), Walter Giller (Michel Boissand), Antoine Balpêtré (Dr. Hermann), René Génin (Frederic Henderson, groundsman), Héléna Manson (Augusta Henderson, housekeeper), Frédéric Duvallès (Mathias Desgrez), Dany Jacquet (Frieda, maid), Laurence Belval, Gabriel Jabbour, Claude Piéplu (Le tapissier)
Country: France
Language: French
Runtime: 110 min
Aka: The Burning Court; The Curse and the Coffin

Summary

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...
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)

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