The Burning Crucible
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.
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Cast
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Ivan Mosjoukine
Zed, le détective
Also in
The Late Mathias Pascal
Father Sergius
Nathalie Lissenko
Elle
Also in
Double Love
Satan Triumphant
Ivan Mozzhukhin
Zed - le détective
Alexandre Kamenka
Pierre Schild
Nicolas Koline
Le mari
Known for
Napoleon
Joseph-Louis Mundwiller
Camille Bardou
Le président du Club
Also in
Une Femme a Passé
Double Love
Boris Bilinsky
Huguette Delacroix
La Grand Mère
No other roles listed
Nikolai Toporkoff
Franco Zellas
Also in
The Lion of the Moguls
Ivan Mosjoukine Director · Joseph-Louis Mundwiller Cinematographer Nikolai Toporkoff Cinematographer
United States release September 25, 1982 · Produced in France · Original title Le Brasier ardent
Production
France
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Languages
Original title
Le Brasier ardent
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
Denmark · July 2, 1923
France · August 4, 1923
Theatrical
United States · September 25, 1982
New York Film Festival
Finland
October 29, 1923
Japan
May 28, 1926
Portugal
December 12, 1924
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