Film

The Burning Crucible

1923 · 1h 37m · Comedy · Drama · Mystery

IMDb

7.3

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.

Ivan Mosjoukine

Zed, le détective

Nathalie Lissenko

Elle

Nicolas Koline

Le mari

Camille Bardou

Le président du Club

Huguette Delacroix

La Grand Mère

Franco Zellas

Paul Franceschi

Jules de Spoly

• Ivan MosjoukineDirector · Screenplay
• Alexandre KamenkaProducer
• Nikolai ToporkoffDirector of Photography
• Joseph-Louis MundwillerDirector of Photography

The Burning Crucible (Trailer)

Release date

August 4, 1923

Status

Released

Original language

French

Runtime

1h 37m

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Mystery