The Burning Secret
Robert Siodmak: Dark Visionary
December 11 - 19, 2024
This holiday-set 1933 tale of Oedipal jealousy and infidelity finds Siodmak adapting a 1913 novella by Stefan Zweig, atmospherically rendering it as a deft blend of melodrama and psychodrama.
Atmospherically melding melodrama with psychodrama, this 1933 feature finds Siodmak adapting a 1913 novella by Stefan Zweig with an Oedipal twist. A mother and her 12-year-old son are staying at a lakeside hotel in Switzerland while on holiday, where the boy meets a dandyish race car driver who soon enough gravitates toward his mother. Suspecting a blooming affair, the boy grapples with his feelings of jealousy and fear that his parents’ marriage could be doomed. Siodmak’s final film before fleeing Germany, The Burning Secret was denounced by Nazi chief propagandist Josef Goebbels, with Goebbels singling Siodmak out as “a corrupter of the German family.” Print courtesy of Deutsche Kinemathek.
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