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The Burning Secret (1923)

The Burning Secret poster
Original title
Das brennende Geheimnis
Directed by
Rochus Gliese
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 18m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man befriends a young boy to get close to the boy's mother. The story follows their interactions and the secrets that complicate their relationships.

sombermysteriousslow-burnmelancholicintimaterestrainedtensequietbrooding

What happens

The Burning Secret (German: Das brennende Geheimnis) is a 1923 German silent drama directed by Rochus Gliese and starring Ernst Deutsch, Otto Gebühr, and Wilhelm Diegelmann. It was based on the novel by Stefan Zweig which was later adapted into a 1933 film of the same name (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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