Burning Secret (1988)
Note: this print runs 101 minutes against a recorded 106 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Klaus Maria Brandauer, Faye Dunaway, Ian Richardson, John Nettleton, Václav Štekl, Ivo Niederle, Raoul Schránil, Nelly Gaierová
Directed by Andrew Birkin
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. 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. During a story of his war experiences, the baron reveals the scar of a wound from an American soldier and thrusts a pin through it, saying "see—no feeling." Little does the boy realize that it is his turn to be wounded. But so
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