Kubrick's Universe - The Stanley Kubrick Podcast

Episode 17 : Burning Secret with Leon Vitali, Gerald Fried and Nathan Abrams. In this episode, we talk about a recently discovered screenplay on July 15th this year that made the headlines.  This wasn't just any screenplay. It was a script penned by Stanley Kubrick and Paths of Glory co-writer Calder Willingham, over 62 years ago and it had only been discovered when one of Stanley's earliest collaborators, the composer Gerald Fried, brought it to the attention of Kubrick fans the world over. The script is called Burning Secret and it's an adaptation of a 1913 novella by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, and it tells the story of a young boy who is seduced by a man in order to get to the boys' mother. Thus far there have been three filmed versions of the original novella, the most recent being in 1988. The production was written and directed by Andrew Birkin, and it stars Klaus Maria Brandauer, David Eberts, and the legendary Faye Dunaway. But this particular treatment of the screenplay, by Kubrick and Will