LA TOUR DE NESLE

A film by Gaston Roudes

Cast : Jean Weber, Jacques Varennes, Tania Fedor, Meg Whanda, Alexandre Rignault

1937 / original title : LA TOUR DE NESLE / 84’ / Black & White / status : completed / long feature-film / International collections

The love life of the cruel and fiery queen Marguerite who took a new lover every night only to have him executed the following morning.
The film is a faithful adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ novel; the orgy scenes caused a great scandal when the film was first released.