Documentary
Prisoner of Paradise
The startling true story of a Jewish director ordered to make a propaganda film for the Nazis.
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.
Top Cast
Ian Holm
Narrator (voice)
Robert Lantz
Self
Eleonore Hertzberg
Self
Lone Koppel
Self
Renée Saint-Cyr
Self
Kurt Gerron
Self (archival footage)
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