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Release Date:
March 18, 1955
Original Title:
La Tour de Nesle
Alternate Titles:
La Torre Del Piacere
Genres:
Drama | History
Production Companies:
Film Costellazione
Les Films Fernand Rivers
Production Countries:
France | Italy
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 120
France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are invited. The young men were brought blindfolded, and after a night of love they were killed and their corpses thrown into the river, because the queen was afraid that her husband would learn about her adventures. One of her lovers managed to escape death. He knows the secrets of the queen, knows that she once gave birth to a son from him, claims that he has evidence that Margarita wanted to kill her father and blackmails her.
Director:
Abel Gance
Director of Photography:
André Thomas
Editor:
Louisette Hautecœur
First Assistant Director:
Giacomo Pozzi-Bellini
Michel Boisrond
Original Music Composer:
Henri Verdun
Producer:
Fernand Rivers
Production Design:
Robert Bouladoux
Production Manager:
Maurice Saurel
Screenplay:
Fernand Rivers
Abel Gance
Sound:
Alberto Bartolomei
Robert Teisseire
Theatre Play:
Alexandre Dumas
Unit Manager:
Claude Gourot
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