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Prisoner of Paradise

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

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2003 · 1h 36m
Documentary
Starring Ian Holm · Robert Lantz · Renée Saint-Cyr
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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.

Theatrical
Dec 5, 2003
DVD / Blu-ray
Apr 12, 2005
Directors
Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender
Producers
David Eberts, Jake Eberts, Karl-Eberhard Schäfer
Music
Luc St. Pierre
Studio
Media Verite, Café Productions, BBC, History Television, PBS, U5 Filmproduktion
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Ian Holm
Narrator (voice)
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Robert Lantz
Self
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Renée Saint-Cyr
Self
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Kurt Gerron
Self (archival footage)

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