The country estate of Count Claudieuse is located near Paris. One night in 1871, it goes up in flames. Two shots are fired, the count is critically injured, and the countess and her children escape the flames with the help of the feeble-minded Cocoleu. Cocoleu accuses Jacques von Beaucoran from the neighboring estate of being the perpetrator. Jacques protests his innocence.

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Cast

Erika Pluhar

Gräfin von Claudieuse

Dieter Borsche

Graf von Claudieuse

Heinz Moog

Baron von Chandoré

Siegfried Lowitz

Maître Magloire

Gerd Baltus

Untersuchungsrichter Galpin

Konrad Georg

Staatsanwalt Daubigeon

Wolfgang Büttner

Dr. Seinebos

Heinz Schimmelpfennig

Blangin

Hans Georg Panczak

Cocoleu