The Burning Secret

The Burning Secret
Directed by	Robert Siodmak
Produced by	Alfred Sternau
Written by	Stefan Zweig (novella) Frederick Kohner Alfred Polgar Robert Siodmak
Starring	Alfred Abel Hilde Wagener Hans Joachim Schaufuß Lucie Höflich Willi Forst
Music by	Allan Gray
Cinematography	Richard Angst Robert Baberske
Edited by	Max Brenner
Production company	Tonal-Film
Distributed by	Deutsche Universal-Film
Release dates	20 March 1933
Running time	92 minutes
Country	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 novella of the same title by Stefan Zweig. Because of its theme of adultery, the film was attacked by Joseph Goebbels the incoming Nazi Propaganda Minister.^[1] The film was remade in 1988.

Cast

Alfred Abel as Der Mann
Hilde Wagener as Die Frau
Hans Joachim Schaufuß as Edgar
Lucie Höflich as Mutter der Frau
Willi Forst as Herr von Haller, Rennfahrer
Ernst Dumcke as Baron Tosse
Alfred Beierle as Müller, Hoteldetektiv
Hans Richter as Fritz, Page
Rina Marsa as Fräulein de la Roche
Heinz Berghaus as Hotelportier
Lotte Stein as Frau Klappholz
F.W. Schröder-Schrom
Babette Jenssen
Edwin Jürgensen
Kurt Pulvermacher
Alexander Fernoff

References

↑ Reimer & Reimer p.275

Bibliography

Hake, Sabine. Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. University of Texas Press, 2001.
Reimer, Robert C. & Reimer, Carol J. The A to Z of German Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2010.

External links

The Burning Secret at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Robert Siodmak

Europe 1930–1939	People on Sunday (1930) Abschied (1930) Inquest (1931) The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931) Storms of Passion (1932) Quick (1932) The Burning Secret (1933) The Weaker Sex (1933) The Crisis is Over (1934) Parisian Life (1936) Compliments of Mister Flow (1936) White Cargo (1937) Mollenard (1938) Personal Column (1939)

Hollywood 1941–1950	West Point Widow (1941) Fly-by-Night (1942) The Night Before the Divorce (1942) My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942) Someone to Remember (1943) Son of Dracula (1943) Phantom Lady (1944) Cobra Woman (1944) Christmas Holiday (1944) The Suspect (1944) The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945) The Spiral Staircase (1946) The Killers (1946) The Dark Mirror (1946) Time Out of Mind (1947) Cry of the City (1948) Criss Cross (1949) The Great Sinner (1949) The File on Thelma Jordon (1950) Deported (1950) The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)

Europe 1952–1969	The Crimson Pirate (1952) Flesh and the Woman (1954) Die Ratten (1955) The Devil Strikes at Night (1957) Dorothea Angermann (1959) Magnificent Sinner (1959) The Rough and the Smooth (1959) Escape from East Berlin (1962) Die Pyramide des Sonnengottes (1965) Custer of the West (1967) Kampf um Rom (1968)

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