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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.
Dec 23, 1988 · Burning Secret: Directed by Andrew Birkin. With David Eberts, Faye Dunaway, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ian Richardson. 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.
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- Drama
- Andrew Birkin
- 1988-12-23
"Burning Secret" is one of those dark, brooding European dramas in which carriages are always arriving in the snow, and it's warm inside the chateau but cold in the hearts of the characters. It takes place in an exclusive winter spa in the years just after World War I, when a diplomat's beautiful wife arrives with her tubercular son to spend ...
American Sonya Tuchman (Faye Dunaway) has traveled to a Viennese sanatorium in hopes of curing her sickly son, Edmund (David Eberts), of his chronic asthma. At the facility, Sonya and Edmund...
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- Andrew Birkin
- PG
- Romance
Overview. While recuperating in a sanatorium in the mountains, a young boy becomes very close friends with an older baron. But the baron is only using the boy to get to know his mother, the wife of an older diplomat. When the boy realises the baron’s intentions, he becomes jealous, moody and depressed. Andrew Birkin.
Original title: Burning Secret. Synopsis: 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.
Release Date. 1988. Location. Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia; Prague, Czechoslovakia; Marienbad, Czechoslovakia; London, England, United Kingdom; Austria. Technical Specs. Duration. 1h 47m. TCM Emails. Sign Up. Love story of a mother who becomes involved with an Austrian baron in a sanitarium.
