Prisoner of Paradise

200396 min6.8English

Directed by

Stuart Sender, Malcolm Clarke

Logline

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

Synopsis

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.

Cast and Crew

Cast: Ian Holm, Robert Lantz, Eleonore Hertzberg, Lone Koppel, Renée Saint-Cyr, Kurt Gerron

Writer: Malcolm Clarke (Writer)

Cinematographer: Michael Hammon

Editors: Glenn Berman, Susan Shanks

Sound Designer: Pierre-Jules Audet

Composer: Luc St. Pierre

Producers: Jamie Gilcig, Karl-Eberhard Schäfer, Marion Schmidt

Production: Media Verite, Café Productions, BBC, History Television

Documentary

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