German title: Brennendes Geheimnis Spain title: Secreto en llamas Greek title: Αβάσταχτο μυστικό Russian title: Жгучая тайна Original title: Brennendes Geheimnis
Alternative titles: Avastahto mystiko / Αβασταχτο μυστικο
Melodrama – FRG, United Kingdom Production year: 1987 Movie length: 111 minutes
Director: Andrew Birkin Writer: Andrew Birkin, Stefan Zweig Cinematograph: Ernest Day Music: Hans Zimmer
Movie description:
This symbol-filled story, filmed with sensuous detail and nuance, is set in Austria in the 1920s. While being treated for asthma at a country spa, an American diplomat’s lonely 12-year-old son Edmund is befriended and infatuated by a suave, mysterious baron. During a story of his war experiences, the baron reveals the scar of a wound from an American soldier and thrusts a pin through it, saying »see – no feeling«. Little does the boy realize that it is his turn to be wounded. But soon his adored friend heartlessly brushes him aside and turns his seductive attentions to his mother. The boy’s jealousy and feelings of betrayal become uncontrollable.