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The Burning Secret
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. It was released by the German branch of Universal Pictures.
Because of its theme of adultery, the film was attacked by Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister. The film was remade in 1988.
Cast.
- Alfred Abel as Der Mann
Stanley Kubrick's unrealized projects
Film director Stanley Kubrick worked on numerous film projects that were never completed.
"The Burning Secret" and "Natural Child".
In 1956, after the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (M.G.M.) studio turned down a request from Kubrick and his producer partner James B. Harris to film "Paths of Glory", MGM then invited Kubrick to review the studio's other properties. Harris and Kubrick discovered Stefan Zweig's novel "The Burning Secret", in which a young baron attempts to