The Burning Secret (1923)

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

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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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.

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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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