Brennendes Geheimnis (1933)
Also known as The Burning Secret
1933 · Feature film · 83 min · dir. Robert Siodmak
- Drama
Synopsis
One autumn, Edgar, a 12 year old boy, spends a holiday with his mother at a plush hotel in Switzerland. His father, a busy lawyer, remains at the family home in Vienna. When he sees a stylish motorcar pull up at the hotel, Edgar wastes no time befriending its owner, an amiable dandy. The latter pays more attention to the boy’s mother than to the boy himself, and decides to use Edgar to wheedle his way into her affections. When Edgar realises he has been used, he is far from happy...
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Robert Siodmak
- Writer
- Frederick Kohner
- Cinematography
- Robert Baberske
- Studio
- Tonal-Film
- Released
- 1933-03-20
- Original title
- Brennendes Geheimnis
- Running time
- 83 minutes
Cast & crew
Robert Siodmak Director
Alfred Abel
Hilde Wagener- Hans Joachim Schaufuß
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★ · toxic waste · Dr Soul · 2023-12-13
How strange: at the same time printed 'works' such as this here 'story' were committed to the flames in the celebrational book-burnings, the same filth gets slipped back into the minds of the people via the silver screen. So, what do we have here? For the entirety of the film, Forst's character is stubbornly trying to get a leg over with a married woman whom he just met for the first time, and who is travelling with her 13 year-old son. (Never mind why any woman would do this in the first place in real life - this is Jewish 'writing', you'll have to suspend reality for the most part, or at…
