Burning Secret
Burning Secret
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Burning Secret

DirectorAndrew Birkin

To capture the mother's heart, take the child's hand.

5.7 / 10
1988
106 min
Drama

While recuperating in a sanatorium in the mountains, a young boy becomes very close friends with an older baron. But the baron is only using the boy to get to know his mother, the wife of an older diplomat. When the boy realises the baron’s intentions, he becomes jealous, moody and depressed.

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