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Release Date: 2003

Cast: Ian Holm, Kees Brusse, Renée Saint-Cyr

Categories: Movies, Documentary, History, War film

Prisoner of Paradise is a 2003 Canadian documentary film directed by Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender. 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. The documentary is a chronicle of the life and career of Kurt Gerron. During the 1920s and early 1930s, Gerron was a well-known cabaret and film actor in Berlin. He sang the song Mack the Knife in the initial production of The Threepenny Opera and appeared in a... MORE

Prisoner of Paradise is a 2003 Canadian documentary film directed by Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender. 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. The documentary is a chronicle of the life and career of Kurt Gerron. During the 1920s and early 1930s, Gerron was a well-known cabaret and film actor in Berlin. He sang the song Mack the Knife in the initial production of The Threepenny Opera and appeared in a supporting role in Josef von Sternberg's classic German sound film The Blue Angel, co-starring Marlene Dietrich. When the Nazis were in power, Gerron remained in Germany, in spite of serious requests from Josef von Sternberg and Peter Lorre that he should leave the country. Later, Gerron moved to Paris and Amsterdam in order to continue his entertainment career, and was in the end captured by the Germans in 1943 and sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp located near Prague. At the time, this camp was being used by the Nazis with the purpose of propagating and fabricating a situation that the LESS