The burning Room
the burning Room is a French film carried out by Julien Duvivier and left in 1962.
Synopsis
Historian, Michel Boissard is invited with his wife, Marie, downward of the marchioness of Brinvilliers, the famous empoisonneuse one, in the castle of Mathias Desgrez, going down from the last lover of the marchioness who denounced it. Mathias is a follower of the occult sciences, which it practices with his friend Doctor Hermann. To the castle come Marc and Stephan Desgrez, nephews of Mathias, who await the heritage impatiently… The woman of Marc, Lucie, it also hopes. Marc, who has as a mistress the personal nurse of Mathias, Myra, would like to accelerate the death of his uncle, which uncle is fascinated by the arrival of Marie Boissard. One night, little time afterwards, Mathias dies after having received the visit of a mysterious woman assembled to carry her drugs and sight by a servant to him… Mathias is buried, then its corpse disappears while at the same time of the analyzes prove that it was undoubtedly poisoned. By which? Lucie in a hurry to inherit? Myra, to like his/her lover? Marie, to avenge her grandmother betrayed by the ancestor for Mathias? The Kraus inspector inquires without being able to have precise idea.
Data sheet
- international Title: The Burning Short
- French Title: the burning Room
- German Title: Das Brennende Gericht
- Italian Title: I Peccatori beyond foresta will nera
- Réalisation: Julien Duvivier
- Scenario and dialogs: Charles Spaak and Julien Duvivier, according to the novel of John Dickson Carr
- Production: Ralph Baum, Julien Duvivier and Yvon Guézel
- Production company:
- France: Comacico
- Germany: Taurus Film and Universum Film
- Music: Georges Auric
- Photography: Roger Fellous
- Assembly: Paul Cayatte and Nicole Dovecote
- Decorations:
- Costumes: Ingenuous and Louis Féraud
- Country: France, Italy, West Germany
- Kind: Horror, Thriller
- Lasted: 110 minutes
- Format: Black and white - 1,85:1 - Sound: mono
- Budget:
- Comings out date:
Distribution
- Jean-Claude Brialy: Marc Desgrez
- Edith Scob: Marie Boissard
- Nadja To strip: Myra Schneider
- Perrette Pradier : Lucy Desgrez
- Claude Rich: Stephan Desgrez
- Walter Giller: Michel Boissard
- Antoine Balpêtré: Dr. Hermann
- Frederic Duvallès: Mathias Desgrez
- Héléna Manson: Augusta Henderson
- Rene Génin: Frederic Henderson
- Dany Jacquet: Frieda Schiller
- Claude Piéplu: Inspector Krauss
- Gabriel Jabbour: Jacob Kremer
- Laurence Belval: Elsa Braun.
- Carl Brake: Dr. Baxter
- Catherine Thévenin: maidservant
- Jacqueline Porel: voice Nadja To strip
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