Tower of Lust

Tower of Lust

120 mins | Drama, History | March 18, 1955

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.

Tower of Lust

120 mins | Drama, History | March 18, 1955

Tower of Lust
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.
IMDb rating 5.8
Producers
Original title La Tour de Nesle
Directors Abel Gance
Writers

Cast

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

Christine Grado

as Princesse Jeanne

Lia Di Leo

as Princesse Blanche

Marcel Raine

as Orsini

Claude Sylvain

as la servante de l'auberge

André Gabriello

as le grand ménestrel

Nelly Kaplan

as Alice