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Burning Secret is a 1988 drama film, based on the 1913 short story Brennendes Geheimnis by Stefan Zweig, about an American diplomat's son who befriends a mysterious baron while staying at an Austrian spa during the 1920s. This symbol-filled story, filmed with sensuous detail and nuance, is set in Austria in the 1920s.
Dec 23, 1988 · Burning Secret: Directed by Andrew Birkin. With David Eberts, Faye Dunaway, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ian Richardson. While being treated for asthma at a country spa, an American diplomat's lonely 12-year-old son is befriended and infatuated by a suave, mysterious baron.
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- Drama
- Andrew Birkin
- 1988-12-23
Burning Secret (1988) "Burning Secret" was my first effort at making a feature film back in 1988. Based on a short story by Stefan Zweig, it had originally been commissioned by MGM five...
- 101 min
- 1.7M
- Andrew Birkin
It takes place in an exclusive winter spa in the years just after World War I, when a diplomat's beautiful wife arrives with her tubercular son to spend the winter in the fresh mountain air.
While recuperating in a sanatorium in the mountains, a young boy becomes very close friends with an older baron. But the baron is only using the boy to get to know his mother, the wife of an older diplomat. When the boy realises the baron’s intentions, he becomes jealous, moody and depressed.
- Andrew Birkin
- 106 min
- 11
Overview. While recuperating in a sanatorium in the mountains, a young boy becomes very close friends with an older baron. But the baron is only using the boy to get to know his mother, the wife of an older diplomat. When the boy realises the baron’s intentions, he becomes jealous, moody and depressed. Andrew Birkin.
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