Tower of Lust
La Tour de Nesle
History
Drama
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.
1955-03-18
fr
Cast
Director
Abel Gance
Silvana Pampanini as Marguerite de Bourgogne
Pierre Brasseur as Jehan Buridan
Paul Guers as Gauthier d'Aunay
Jacques Toja as Philippe d'Aunay
Constant Rémy as Landry
Michel Etcheverry as Enguerrand de Marigny
Michel Bouquet as Louis X
Cristina Grado as Princesse Jeanne
Lia Di Leo as Princesse Blanche
Claude Sylvain as la servante de l'auberge
André Gabriello as le grand ménestrel
Nelly Kaplan as Alice
Daniel Emilfork
Philippe Mareuil as (uncredited)