The Burning Crucible

Overview

A woman, named simply "Elle" and her husband, a wealthy industrialist, are not on the best of terms. While she enjoys the way he caters to her every whim, she wonders whether he really loves her. He, on the other hand, torments himself by imagining rivals. One morning she awakens from a nightmare in which she has been pursued by a man in various guises, who turns out to be the famous Detective Z, whose memoirs she has been reading. When she and her husband quarrel over leaving Paris permanently for a country estate, he goes to the "Trouve Tout" Agency and hires, of all people, Detective Z, to win back her affection.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

August 4, 1923

Original language

French

Spoken languages

French

Countries

France

Cast

Franco Zellas,Ivan Mosjoukine,Huguette Delacroix,Paul Franceschi,Jules de Spoly,Nathalie Lissenko,Nicolas Koline,Camille Bardou

Director

Ivan Mosjoukine

Writer

Ivan Mosjoukine

Producer

Alexandre Kamenka

Cinematography

Joseph-Louis Mundwiller,Nikolai Toporkoff

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0293777