Burning Secret (1933)

Movie
Original title	Burning secret
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1933
length	92 minutes
Rod
Director	Robert Siodmak
script	Friedrich Kohner
production	Alfred Sternau
music	Allan Gray
camera	Richard Angst , Robert Baberske
cut	Max Brenner
occupation
Alfred Abel : The noble man Hilde Wagener : the woman Hans Joachim Schaufuss : Edgar Lucie Höflich : mother of the woman Willi Forst : Herr von Haller, racing driver Ernst Dumcke : Baron Tosse Alfred Beierle : Müller, hotel detective Hans Richter : Fritz, Page Rina Marsa : Miss de la Roche Heinz Berghaus : Hotel porter Edwin Juergensen : Kurt Pulvermacher : Lotte Stein : Mrs. Klappholz FW Schröder-Schrom (as Schröder-Schrom) Babette Jenssen (as Babette Jensen) Alexander Fernoff :

Burning Secret (alternative title The Burning Secret ) is a German fictional film by Robert Siodmak from 1933. The model was based on the novel Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig , published in 1911 .

content

A noble man meets a woman with her twelve-year-old son Edgar while on vacation. At first he befriends Edgar, but then falls in love with his mother. Edgar doesn't understand the relationship between his mother and the nobleman. He is plagued by jealousy. He also feels marginalized and sees his parents' marriage in danger.

During the love affair, he follows the two of them and witnesses them kissing. After the nobleman has left, mother and son, who are once again in a trusting relationship, keep this secret.

Production notes

Burning Secret was filmed from November 9, 1932, and filming ended in mid-December of the same year. The filming locations were the EFA Atelier Cicerostraße in Berlin and Ascona in Switzerland. The film passed the censorship on March 2, 1933 and was premiered on March 20, 1933 in the Berlin Capitol .

Walter Pindter assisted chief cameraman Richard Angst , the lyrics to Allan Gray's music were provided by Max Kolpe . The buildings were designed by Robert A. Dietrich . Günter Mamlok was in charge of production. Editor Max Brenner was also Siodmak's assistant director.

The following two music tracks were played:

• A boy shouldn't think twice
• You don't say anything, you don't ask anything

Their publication took place in the Wiener Bohème-Musikverlag, Berlin-Vienna

background

At the end of January 1933, Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of the German Reich , the so-called seizure of power by the National Socialists. The performance of the film was banned by the Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels . This was partly due to the fact that the author of the novel, Stefan Zweig, and the director of the film were Jews. Goebbels also feared that the film's title could be understood as an ironic allusion to the fire in the Reichstag on February 27, 1933. Then Siodmak left Germany and went to France .

1956 Stanley Kubrick had submitted a script for the film adaptation of the novel at MGM . However, the plan was never implemented. Andrew Birkin , Stanley Kubrick's former assistant, filmed the material again in 1988: Burning Secret with Klaus Maria Brandauer in the role of aristocrat and Faye Dunaway as mother.

The burning secret was the last film by actress Rina Marsa .

Reviews

“The drama remains chilled, nature unmoved, which Siodmak keeps moving into the picture as the opposite pole. There is a kiss, but not to the extreme. In the end, the son is forgiven and silent. Nothing is burning here, everything is smoldering. Very elegantly staged. If only the actors weren't snarling in such a typical way. "

- Review of cargo film

"Society film with melodramatic accents."

- Lexicon of international film

See also

• List of German feature films premiered in the German Reich during the Nazi era

Web links

• Burning Secret in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Burning secret at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Robert Siodmak, Hans C. Blumenberg (Ed.): Between Berlin and Hollywood. Memories of a great film director. Herbig, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-8004-0892-9
2. ↑ Robert Siodmak - author, director . In: CineGraph - Lexikon zum Deutschsprachigen Film , Lg. 14, F 4 f.
3. ↑ Robert Siodmak, Hans C. Blumenberg (Ed.): Between Berlin and Hollywood. Memories of a great film director. Pp. 56-57.
4. ↑ Burning secret at Cinema
5. ↑ IMDb
6. ↑ Newsletter No. 15 ( Memento of the original dated August 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Stanley Kubrick's unrealized projects on The authorized Stanley Kubrick Exhibition website (March 2005)  
7. ↑ http://www.cargo-film.de/blog/2013/jan/30/1933-robert-siodmak-das-brennende-geheimnis-deutsc/
8. ↑ Burning Secret. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 7, 2017 .