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The startling true story of a Jewish director ordered to make a propaganda film for the Nazis. - Prisoner of Paradise
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Title: Prisoner of Paradise

Release Date: 7 Mar 2003

Runtime: 1h 36m

Genre: Documentary

Director: Media Verite, Café Productions, BBC, History Television, PBS, U5 Filmproduktion

Production Companies: Media Verite, Café Productions, BBC, History Television, PBS, U5 Filmproduktion

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.

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Average Vote: 6.3 (3 votes)

Cast

  • Narrator (voice): Ian Holm
  • Self: Robert Lantz
  • Self: Eleonore Hertzberg
  • Self: Lone Koppel
  • Self: Renée Saint-Cyr
  • Self (archival footage): Kurt Gerron
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