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
as Fräulein von Scuderi

Willy A. Kleinau
as Cardillac

Anne Vernon
as Madelon

Roland Alexandre
as Olivier Brusson

Angelika Hauff
as St. Croix

Richard Häussler
as Miossens

Dorothea Wieck
as Maintenon

Mathieu Ahlersmeyer
as Louis XIV

Alexander Engel
as La Regnie

Hans-Peter Thielen
as Degrais