The Burning Secret (eBook, ePUB) - Zweig, Stefan
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Based on the short story Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig, Burning Secret is about the son of an American diplomat who befriends a mysterious baron while staying at a spa in Austria in the 1920s. Filmed with sensory details and nuances, this symbol-filled story is set in Austria in the 1920s. The lonely 12-year-old son of an American diplomat, treated for asthma in a country spa, is befriended by a sweet and mysterious baron and falls in love with him. During a story of his war experiences, the baron uncovers the scar of an American soldier and, saying "no seeing-no feeling", threads a needle…mehr

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Based on the short story Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig, Burning Secret is about the son of an American diplomat who befriends a mysterious baron while staying at a spa in Austria in the 1920s. Filmed with sensory details and nuances, this symbol-filled story is set in Austria in the 1920s. The lonely 12-year-old son of an American diplomat, treated for asthma in a country spa, is befriended by a sweet and mysterious baron and falls in love with him. During a story of his war experiences, the baron uncovers the scar of an American soldier and, saying "no seeing-no feeling", threads a needle through it. Little does the boy realise that it is his turn to be wounded. But soon his beloved friend mercilessly pushes him aside and turns his seductive attention to his mother. The boy's jealousy and feelings of betrayal become uncontrollable.
Written and directed by Andrew Birkin, the film stars Klaus Maria Brandauer, Faye Dunaway and David Eberts. The film won the Young Jury Prize at the Brussels Film Festival in 1989 and the same year David Eberts won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
Autorenporträt
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was an Austrian novelist, poet, playwright and biographer. Born into an Austrian-Jewish family in 1881, he became a leading figure in Vienna's cultural world and was famed for his gripping novellas and biographies. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most popular writers in the world: extremely popular in the United States, South America and Europe - he remains so in continental Europe - however, he was largely ignored by the British public. Zweig is best known for his novellas (notably The Burning Secret, The Royal Game, Amok, and Letter from an Unknown Woman; novels (Beware of Pity, Confusion, and the posthumously published The Post Office Girl); and his vivid psychological biographical essays on famous writers and thinkers such as Erasmus, Tolstoy, Balzac, Stendhal, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Dickens, Freud and Mesmer. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, Zweig fled from Salzburg to London, then to New York, and finally to Brazil. Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, was completed in 1942, one day before Zweig and his second wife were found dead, following an apparent double suicide.
Stefan Zweig
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