Prisoner of Paradise

Prisoner of Paradise

2003/03/07 • Released • English

Documentary
6.3
1h 36m

The startling true story of a Jewish director ordered to make a propaganda film for the Nazis.

Overview

The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where he was commanded to write and direct a Nazi propaganda film.

Director : Malcolm Clarke

Casts
Ian Holm

Ian Holm

Narrator (voice)

Robert Lantz

Self

Eleonore Hertzberg

Self

Lone Koppel

Self

Renée Saint-Cyr

Renée Saint-Cyr

Self

Kurt Gerron

Kurt Gerron

Self (archival footage)

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