The Burning Secret

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The Burning Secret
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Directed by Robert Siodmak
Written by
Based onThe Burning Secretby Stefan Zweig
Produced by Alfred Sternau
Starring
Cinematography
Edited by Max Brenner
Music by Allan Gray
Production
company
Tonal-Film
Distributed by Deutsche Universal-Film
Release date
  • 29 March 1933 (1933-03-29)
Running time
92 minutes
Countries
  • Austria
  • Germany
Language German

The Burning Secret (German : Brennendes Geheimnis) is a 1933 Austrian-German drama film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Alfred Abel, Hilde Wagener and Hans Joachim Schaufuß. It was based on the 1913 novella of the same title by Stefan Zweig. It was released by the German branch of Universal Pictures. [1] It was shot at the EFA Studios in Berlin and on location around Ascona in Switzerland. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert A. Dietrich. [2]

Contents

Because of its theme of adultery, the film was attacked by Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister. [3]

Cast

Production

The Burning Secret was the last film Robert Siodmak, who was Jewish, directed before the Nazi seizure of power. The film was based on the story by Stefan Zweig that was previously adapted as a silent film. The cinematography was done by Richard Angst. [4]

Release

The film was released in Berlin on 29 March 1933, but was shown without the credits for director, composer, lyricist, and original author. Joseph Goebbels attacked Siodmak as a "corrupter of the German family" in Völkischer Beobachter . Siodmak and his brother later left Germany for France and then the United States. [5]

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References

  1. Alpi p.59
  2. Klaus p.24
  3. Reimer & Reimer p. 275
  4. Waldman 2008, pp. 32–33.
  5. Waldman 2008, p. 33.

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