Prisoner of Paradise

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

6.3
20031h 36m

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.

Production

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Cast

Photo of Ian Holm

Ian Holm

Narrator (voice)

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Kurt Gerron

Self (archival footage)

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