Documentary · Canada · 2003 · 1h 36m

Prisoner of Paradise

Director

Cast

Ian Holm as Narrator (voice) Robert Lantz as Self Eleonore Hertzberg as Self Lone Koppel as Self Renée Saint-Cyr as Self Kurt Gerron as Self (archival footage)

Crew

Michael Hammon — Director of Photography Glenn Berman — Editor Susan Shanks — Editor Luc St. Pierre — Original Music Composer Malcolm Clarke — Writer Malcolm Clarke — Producer

Tagline

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.

Key Collaborators

Malcolm Clarke Director Stuart Sender Director Michael Hammon Director of Photography Glenn Berman Editor Susan Shanks Editor Luc St. Pierre Original Music Composer Malcolm Clarke Writer Malcolm Clarke Producer Karl-Eberhard Schäfer Producer

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