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The Burning Secret (1933)
Directed by Robert Siodmak
Overview
One autumn, Edgar, a 12 year old boy, spends a holiday with his mother at a plush hotel in Switzerland. His father, a busy lawyer, remains at the family home in Vienna. When he sees a stylish motorcar pull up at the hotel, Edgar wastes no time befriending its owner, an amiable dandy. The latter pays more attention to the boy’s mother than to the boy himself, and decides to use Edgar to wheedle his way into her affections. When Edgar realises he has been used, he is far from happy…
Length 92 minutes
Actors
Alfred Abel | Hilde Wagener | Hans Joachim Schaufuß | Willi Forst | Lucie Höflich | Alfred Beierle | Hans Richter | Rina Marsa | Heinz Berghaus | Edwin Jürgensen | Kurt Pulvermacher | Lotte Stein | F.W. Schröder-Schrom | Babette Jenssen | Alexander Fernoff