''The Burning Secret'' (german: Das brennende Geheimnis) is a 1923 German
silent drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...
directed by
Rochus Gliese
Rochus Gliese (6 January 1891 — 22 December 1978) was a German actor, director, production designer, and Academy Award-nominated art director of early films from the 1910s and 1920s. He was born in Berlin.
He is most remembered in the Uni ...
and starring
Ernst Deutsch
Ernst Deutsch, also known as Ernest Dorian (16 September 1890 – 22 March 1969), was a Jewish Austrian actor. In 1916, his performance as the protagonist in the world première of Walter Hasenclever's Expressionist play '' The Son'' in Dresde ...
,
Otto Gebühr
Otto Gebühr (29 May 1877 – 13 March 1954) was a German theatre and film actor, who appeared in 102 films released between 1917 and 1954. He is noted for his performance as the Prussian king Frederick the Great in numerous films.
Early lif ...
, and
Wilhelm Diegelmann
Wilhelm Diegelmann (28 September 1861 – 1 March 1934) was a German actor.
Career
Diegelmann's first stage appearance was in 1878 in the chorus for the Frankfurt Opera. In 1881 he debuted at the Frankfurt City Theater, playing King Lear, Wil ...
.
[Bock & Bergfelder p. 150] It was based on the novel by
Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig (; ; 28 November 1881 – 22 February 1942) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist, and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular write ...
which was later adapted into a 1933
film of the same name
Cast
See also
* ''
Burning Secret
''Burning Secret'' is a 1988 drama film, based on the short story ''Brennendes Geheimnis'' by Stefan Zweig, about an American diplomat's son who befriends a mysterious baron while staying at an Austrian spa during the 1920s. This symbol-fille ...
'' (1988)
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1923 films
1923 drama films
Silent German drama films
Films of the Weimar Republic
Films directed by Rochus Gliese
German silent feature films
German black-and-white films
Films based on works by Stefan Zweig
Films based on short fiction
1920s German films
1920s German-language films
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